A CHINESE SILVER WIRE-INLAID AND GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC VASE AND COVER, YOU

A CHINESE SILVER WIRE-INLAID AND GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC VASE AND COVER, YOU
QING DYNASTY

The pear-shaped body raised on a high flaring foot, cast to the exterior with flanges and decorated in relief with taotie masks and stylised animals highlighted in gold and silver, all reserved on a leiwen ground, the rope twist handle secured with beast-mask terminals, the domed cover with further flanges and taotie, surmounted by a finial, with a paper label for the Finer Collection 'CB 23', 35cm, 2.6kg. (2)

Cf. Sydney L Moss Ltd, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, no.58 for a related example dated to the Qing dynasty.

清 銅錯金銀饕餮提梁卣

The revival of archaic bronze shapes and decoration reached its zenith in the reigns of the Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors. The lot offered here is an imitation of an important wine vessel used for religious rituals in the late Shang Dynasty.

From the Finer Collection of later bronzes and hand warmers.