Live Auction 6454Michael Inchbald: A Legacy of Design
A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE BALUSTER VASE
Lot 72

A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE BALUSTER VASE

17TH CENTURY

Closed22 January 2014

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GBP 4,750

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A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE BALUSTER VASE
17TH CENTURY
Cast with a geometric design, with dragon mask handles suspending loose rings, fitted for electricity
19.7/8 in. (50 cm.) high

Brought back from China in the 1870s by Arthur Ilbert (d. 1899) of Westbrook Upwey, Dorset, a merchant and Michael Inchbald’s great-grandfather, who by family tradition was 'the richest taipan in Shanghai’ (P. Inchbald, Jack of All Trades: And His Family, privately published, 1999, p. 41).