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A gold-inlaid bronze oval handled vessel, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period | 東周春秋時期 銅錯金夔龍紋敦

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October 9, 07:30 AM GMT

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400,000 - 600,000 HKD

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A gold-inlaid bronze oval handled vessel,

Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period

東周春秋時期 銅錯金夔龍紋敦


of oval section, flanked by a pair of loop handles, the slightly waisted mouth collared by a gold-inlaid border of sinuous dragons, the body similarly decorated with gold-inlaid registers, the broad central band patterned with interlocking dragons rendered in angular scrollwork, above additional stylised beasts and petal-shaped lappets, all supported on a short scrollwork-adorned foot


17.3 by 16.4 by h. 7.9 cm

Peter Lai Antiques Ltd, Hong Kong, 14th August 1992.


黎氏古玩，香港，1992年8月14日

A gold-inlaid bronze cup of similar size and design is in the British Museum, London, accession no. 1936,1118.41; another example from the collection of Avery Brundage, but with a main pictorial register of figures and animals once decorated with inlays, is now in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, accession no. B60B720. See also a similar vessel unearthed from Shanxi, published in 'Shanxi Tunliu Wujiagou chutu Zhanguo tongqi [Warring States bronzes excavated in Wujiagou, Tunliu, Shanxi]', Archaeology, 1983, no. 3, pp. 273-4, pl. 7, fig. 5, and again in Hayashi Minao, In shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou bronzes], vol. 3, 1989, p. 84, no. 58, together with other examples from excavations and major museum collections.