A LARGE BRONZE BOTTLE VASE

Estimated Value:

1.200 € - 1.800 €

Schätzpreis:

4.000 €

Description:

China, Western Han dynasty
H. 38 cm
Cast bronze, more granular green, bluish, gray patina and also earth-colored sintering, remnants of the original gilding. This very characteristic for the Han period, bottle-shaped bulging Hu with long, cylindrical and at the end garlic bulb-shaped thickened spout belongs to a group of ritual vessels, which have become so properly known only in recent decades.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired according to records in 1994 at Sotheby's in London
Publ. Zeileis: "From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze", 1999, No. 103, pp. 292-293
Cf. a similar bottle from the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, published 'Bronze Articles for Daily Use - The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum', Hong Kong 2006, no. 50, p. 58
Possibly an old(?) repair under stronger encrustation on the outside of the shoulder of the reveal

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