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A PAIR OF BRONZE ARROW VASES, TOUHU Qing Dynasty (2) image 1

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Lot 52

A PAIR OF BRONZE ARROW VASES, TOUHU
Qing Dynasty

More than a Game: Games in Chinese Art, including the Brian Harkins Collection of Bronze Arrow Vases

29 – 30 May 2022, 14:00 HKT

Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

Sold for HK$25,500 inc. premium

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A PAIR OF BRONZE ARROW VASES, TOUHU

Qing Dynasty
Each with a compressed globular body and a tall cylindrical neck incised with cicada blade lappets, flanked by a pair of lug handles on the top cast with taotie masks on each side reserved on key-fret grounds, similarly decorated on the main section divided by projecting flanges, all raised on a waisted flaring stand. Each 29.2cm (11 1/2in) high, 3.1kg. (2).

Footnotes

清銅饕餮紋雙貫耳投壺一對

Provenance:
Bonhams Knightsbridge, London, 3 December 1997
The Brian Harkins Collection

來源：
倫敦邦瀚斯騎士橋，1997年12月3日
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏

Compare with an almost identical bronze taotie 'arrow' vase, 16/17th century, which was sold at Sotheby's Paris, 9 November 2021, lot 67.

壺口方唇，兩側鑄貫耳，其上鏨刻饕餮紋，頸部分兩段中間起弦紋一道，上刻蕉叶紋，下刻山崖紋，肩部內圈錾刻如意雲紋一周，外圈鏨刻回紋，扁圓鼓腹，出四粗扉棱，四面皆飾饕餮紋，束腰圈足光素無紋。

參考一件巴黎蘇富比售出之十六/十七世紀銅饕餮紋投壺，如出一轍，2021年11月9日，拍品編號67。

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