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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 18, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art part I | 1389 | $****** - ****** | A RARE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, NV MU YOU |
sculpture
28.6 cm (11.25 in)
bronze
Wu Maoding (b. 1850) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.<br/>In the United States prior to the 1990s.<br/>
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The vessel of oval section has a pair of loops attached to the rope-twist handle, and is decorated on each side with a pair of kui dragons confronted on an animal mask, all reserved on a leiwen ground-band set between two rows of circles. The cover is similarly decorated beneath a segmented finial. Both the interior of the vessel and the cover are cast with a six-character inscription, reading nv mu zuo fu ji yi. The surface has light malachite and cuprite encrustation.
