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Description: A cast bronze hu-form vessel Ming dynasty The low-slung belly cast with shaped oval panels in the Western Zhou style enclosed with key-fret borders and accented by diamond-shaped bosses at each juncture below leaf-form panels set between lobed sections cast with raised disintegrated C-commas projecting downward from a double banded neck rendered with abstract taotie masks under a plain banded lip, the double band accented with applied circular handles suspending single rings. 12in (30.5cm) high FOOTNOTES For hu-form vases with related decoration, see Robert Mowry, China\'s Renaissance in Bronze: the Robert M. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, 1993, figure 6, dated to the 12th/14th century; and Sotheby\'s, Hong Kong, Later Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lots 3320 and 3325.
Condition Report: good