春秋早期 青銅蟠虺紋勇鐘

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.