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Lot 293

Sale 453 - Asian Works of Art
Sep 26, 2016 9:59AM
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$60,000 - 80,000
Price Realized
$58,125
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A Bronze Ritual Gong Vessel the beast form vessel having a fitted cover depicting the animal's scrolled horns above protruding round eyes, the face with C-scrolls and flanked by small tapering ears, the back surmounted by scrolled upright flanges, the handle with incised ribs and terminating in wings, and the body with sinuous beasts over a leiwen ground, with taotie masks having prominent, round eyes separated by knotched vertical flanges, raised on the flared, square base with scrolled, confronting beasts separated by vertical flanges, bearing multiple inscriptions. Height 12 5/8 inches.

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