Live Auction 18815Art d'Asie
PETITE CLOCHE EN BRONZE, YONGZHONG
Lot 99 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

PETITE CLOCHE EN BRONZE, YONGZHONG

CHINE, EPOQUE DES PRINTEMPS ET AUTOMNES (VIIEME - VIEME SIECLE)

Closed23 June 2020

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EUR 6,875

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PETITE CLOCHE EN BRONZE, YONGZHONG
CHINE, EPOQUE DES PRINTEMPS ET AUTOMNES (VIIEME - VIEME SIECLE)
L'extérieur est orné de deux panneaux se faisant face surmontant un troisième panneau horizontal, tous rehaussés de rinceaux de motifs stylisés en relief. L'anse en forme de U inversé est ornée de motifs géométriques. La surface est tacheté de patine gris foncé rehaussée de légères incrustations de malachite.
Hauteur: 22.1 cm (8 ¾ in.)

With Rare Art, Inc., New York, before 14 January 1981.
An important private European collection.

Specialist note

Compare the present lot with a niuzhong bell with a similar simple form, flat top, no bosses and low-relief ornamentation in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington, accession no. RLS1997.48.658. See also a bell with similar slender, raised scroll patterns, illustrated in Catherine Delacour, De Bronze, d'or et d'argent, Arts somptuaires de la Chine, Paris, 2001, p.43.