A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER, HU

A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER, HU
YUAN/MING DYNASTY

7kg, 38cm. (2)

Previously from a Hong Kong private collection, then purchased from Nicholas Pitcher, London, 22nd August 2008.

Cast in two parts, the pear-shaped body with two dragon-mask handles, decorated with taotie, with bands of lotus lappets to the rims and four lines of seal script to the interior.

Cf. Pengliang Lu, Recasting the Past, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no.46 for a related vessel.