A BRONZE CORNER FITTING

Estimated Value:

900 € - 1.500 €

Schätzpreis:

1.100 €

Description:

China, Warring States period
H. 12,5 cm
This corner element, executed in the form of a mythical beast with a raised central horn, beak-like mouth with protruding canine teeth and clearly human feet, may have served for a wooden vessel or casket. The rest of the decoration consists of widely curved spiral forms in emphatic raised relief. Cast bronze, gray-green patina and scattered earth incrustations.
Important Austrian private collection, according to records acquired in the 1990s from the liquidation of the holdings Bluett & Sons Ltd. London
Publ. Zeileis: "From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze", 1999, no. 127, p. 335
Small break on a volute

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