A CHINESE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE ARCHAISTIC BEAKER VASE, GU

£2,000 - £3,000 £6,300

A CHINESE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE ARCHAISTIC BEAKER VASE, GU
17TH CENTURY

In the manner of Hu Wenming, cast around the cylindrical body with formal taotie masks separated by vertical flanges, the tall trumpet neck with upright blade-shaped lappets containing a deconstructed taotie mask issuing from a band of kuilong, all reserved on a finely detailed diaper ground, 1.4kg, 28.8cm.

Cf. Sydney L Moss Ltd, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, no.90, for a closely related vessel inscribed and dated '1599' from the collection of HM the King of Sweden.

十七世紀銅局部鎏金觚