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Lot 1217
Sale 986 - Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art
Mar 29, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$10,000 -
15,000
Price Realized
$6,250
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
An Archaic Bronze Tripod Wine Vessel, He
SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD/WARRING STATES
春秋/戰國 青銅獸紋盉
the compressed globular body cast nestled within three club legs terminating in curved feet, the shoulder with a pair of beaded bands about the shoulder reserving a zoomorphic scroll against a leiwen ground interrupted with a serpentine spout, and surmounted by a large dragon head handle arching over the lion topped finial to the disc-like cover. The whole showing grey patina and faint azure encrustation.
the compressed globular body cast nestled within three club legs terminating in curved feet, the shoulder with a pair of beaded bands about the shoulder reserving a zoomorphic scroll against a leiwen ground interrupted with a serpentine spout, and surmounted by a large dragon head handle arching over the lion topped finial to the disc-like cover. The whole showing grey patina and faint azure encrustation.
Height 11 x width 10 1/2 in., 28 x 26.7 cm.
Property from a Private Northeastern Collection