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Of elliptical cross section, the body swells gradually toward the top and ends in a flaring everted lip, on top of the drum a figure of a tiger, each leg standing on a low plinth. Thick blackish patina with some green areas. Carved wooden stand.
Dimensions: Height 52.5 cm
Literature: Compare similar drums illustrated in Wen Wu 1974, no. 5, p. 37, fig. 21; Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York 1995, no. 82, p. 399 and in the Crow Collection
Provenance: Collection Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne, acquired at Kunsthaus am Museum, Carola van Ham, Cologne, invoice dated 27.11.1980 (lot no. 156)
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