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Lot 7103

A cast bronze hu-form vessel
Ming dynasty

23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

US$2,500 - US$4,000

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A cast bronze hu-form vessel

Ming dynasty
The low-slung belly cast with shaped oval panels in the Western Zhou style enclosed with key-fret borders and accented by diamond-shaped bosses at each juncture below leaf-form panels set between lobed sections cast with raised disintegrated C-commas projecting downward from a double banded neck rendered with abstract taotie masks under a plain banded lip, the double band accented with applied circular handles suspending single rings.
12in (30.5cm) high

Footnotes

For hu-form vases with related decoration, see Robert Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze: the Robert M. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, 1993, figure 6, dated to the 12th/14th century; and Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Later Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lots 3320 and 3325.

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