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Lot 271
A BRONZE EWER AND COVER 'HE'
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result:
7.770 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, early Western Han dynasty, 3rd c. BCB. 24 cm
Bronze with partial green patina, the lid finely decorated with a geometric pattern.
Important Austrian private collection, according to records acquired in the 1980s from an old Viennese private collection
Publ. Zeileis 'From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze', 1999, no. 102, pp. 290-291
Cf. Christian Deydier 'Chinese Bronzes', New York 1980, pl. 126
Partly corroded, traces of age
