A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE VASE 17TH/18TH CENTURY

the ovoid body rising from a flat base to a waisted neck and everted rim, the body flanked by a pair of taotie mask handles suspending loose rings, the bronze of a warm dark brown patina scattered with bright gilt splashes of varying size 

Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics: Summer Exhibition, Roger Keverne Ltd, London, 2011, cat. no. 20.

This vase is in good condition, but there is some repatination to one side of one handle.
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For other gilt-splashed vases, see one of hu form decorated with horizontal bands and taotie mask handles suspending loose rings, included in the exhibition Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 160.