Lot 20
BRONZE HEXAGONAL HANDLED VASE
YUAN-MING DYNASTY
Auction: 13 March 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
元至明 銅雙龍耳活環六方瓶
of faceted baluster form cast on high foot rising to waisted neck and galleried mouth, flanked with twin dragon terminus handles supporting loops, decorated with upright plantain leaves, tortoise shell diaper, key fret, and wavy patterns in panels on each side of the body
Dimensions
29.8cm high; 2245g
Provenance
Dr. Kenneth P. Lawley (1937-2023), Edinburgh. Bought from Nicholas S Pitcher, 18 November 2015, with an original receipt. Dr. Lawley's inventory number: M.51.
Dr Lawley was a chemical physicist in The School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, he collected Asian Art all his life and his large collection was sold at this saleroom on 3 November 2023, lot 1-95.
Footnote
A pair of comparable examples, of slightly simpler form, Yuan/ Ming dynasty, sold at Sotheby's New York, 21 March 2015, lot 763; Also compare to a related vase, lacks the rings, dated to the Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. 186-1876, also illustrated in Ross Kerr, 1990, Later Chinese Bronzes, London: Bamboo Publishing, pl. 38, pg. 49.
Please note this lot will be offered with no reserve. 本拍品不設底價