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A pair of documentary bronze wine vessels, jue Dated to the 25th year of Kangxi, corresponding to AD 1687 and of the period
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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Dated to the 25th year of Kangxi, corresponding to AD 1687 and of the period
Each of archaistic form, raised on three tall splayed legs with the deep U-shaped body set to one side with an animal-mask loop handle and to either side of the spouts with a pair of mushroom posts, cast around the lower body with a spiral ground, below two rectangular panels enclosing inscriptions below the spouts.
14.7cm (5¾in) high (2).
Each of archaistic form, raised on three tall splayed legs with the deep U-shaped body set to one side with an animal-mask loop handle and to either side of the spouts with a pair of mushroom posts, cast around the lower body with a spiral ground, below two rectangular panels enclosing inscriptions below the spouts.
14.7cm (5¾in) high (2).
Footnotes
The cast inscription may be translated as: 'Ordered and donated by the Governor of Quanzhou Province to a school in Anxi City for a tribute to Confucius'.
The current pair of wine vessels bear relation to two similarly dated examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated to 1465 and 1541, illustrated by R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, figs 17 and 18. Compare a single bronze jue vessel, dated by inscription to 1737, sold at Sotheby's London on 13 May 2009, lot 233.














