£756
Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
清或更早 銅鑄饕餮紋百環尊
heavily cast in trumpet form with raised centre, decorated with taotie mask all over on diaper ground, bearing lugs suspending rings, a lug on the base
34.1cm high; 7.4kg
Private Scottish collection, Scottish Borders
National Palace Museum, Taipei has six slightly smaller comparable examples, all dated to the Song Dynasty or later, museums nos. Zhongtong 中銅001919N; 001868N; 001154N; 000667N; 000572N; and 000517N. Also see a related square-section bronze archaistic ‘gu’ vase, 18th-19th century, sold at Bonhams Edinburgh, 15 November 2018, lot 100.