A LARGE CHINESE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC VASE AND COVER, YOU

17TH/18TH CENTURY

The pear-shaped body raised on a tall flaring foot and cast with flanges, damascened in gold and silver and decorated in relief with taotie masks reserved on a key fret ground, the bail handle formed as twisted rope with animal mask terminals, 35cm. (2)

Cf. S L Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age, Later Chinese Metalwork, no.58, for another very similar example dated to the 18th century.