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Globular shape with a thin horizontal ridge around the body, on three thin curved feet with a spout ending in a chicken head with hinged lid, the lid of the ewer attached to the body with a hinge. Greenish grey mottled patina. The handle is missing, the area where it was attached to the body restored.
Dimensions: Height 14.7 cm
Literature: Compare similar vessels, illustrated in Sueji Umehara, Nihon shuko shina kodo seika/Selected relics of Chinese bronzes from collections in Japan, Osaka, Yamanaka Co., 1959-1964, vol. 6, plates 518 and 519; Christian Deydier, Chinesische Bronzen, München 1981, p. 126
Provenance: Collection Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne, acquired befor 1973 from a German auction house
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