AN ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL AND COVER, DILIANG HU

Estimated Value:

2.000 € - 3.000 €

Schätzpreis:

8.000 €

Description:

China, Warring States/ Western Han dynasty
H. 24,2 cm (mit Kett-Aufhängung)
The cast globular body supported on three short cabriole legs, flanked on the shoulders with two loop and ring handles, the tapered neck moulded to fit exactly inside the waisted flared cover set on the top with three dragon finials, the patina of thinly encrusted green and blue colour.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired according to records from an old Viennese private collection in the 1980s
Publ. Zeileis: "From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze," 1999, no. 98, pp. 278-279
A similar hu in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Shang and Chou Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessels, pl. 85; another by 'Argencé, Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection, pl. LIX right
Partially minor corrosion

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