Asian Art II - 22nd May 2019

Lot 763

A LARGE CHINESE BRONZE 'TWIN-FISH' BOWL 20TH CENTURY Shaped as a flowerhead

Estimate £150 - £250

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Description

A LARGE CHINESE BRONZE 'TWIN-FISH' BOWL

20TH CENTURY

Shaped as a flowerhead, decorated with birds, figures, flowers and leaves cast in low relief, with two fish to the well, all supported on three feet, 44cm, 4kg.

Provenance: from the collection of Ernst Michel (d.1949), an architect working in Germany in the first half of the 20th century and involved with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus Movement.