Lot 47

SMALL SILVER-INLAID BRONZE HE-FORM 'PHOENIX' WATER-DROPPER
SHISOU MARK, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY





Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
清 石叟款 仿古銅錯銀鳳首三足水滴
of archaistic bronze ritual pouring vessel he form supported on three legs, the spout and the finial of the cover in the form of a phoenix head, the loop tail as the handle, the body decorated with two bands of archaistic geometric pattern in silver inlaid, the base inlaid in silver with a two-character ‘Shi Sou’ mark
Dimensions
8cm wide; 176g
Footnote
Compare to a similar silver-inlaid bronze water-dropper in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Small Refined Articles of the Study, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2009, p. 193, no. 180. A further comparable small gold and silver inlaid water dropper of similar design, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 Oct 2016, lot 43




