Description In shape of an archaic bronze vessel of guang type, the handle formed by a large chi dragon looking over the rim into the well of the cup, the outside carved with two taotie masks on an incised leiwen ground and three small chi dragongs in high relief. Part of the handle recarved in greyish horn. This lot contains materials which require a CITES licence for export outside of the EU contract countries. We would like to inform you that such licenses are usually not granted.
Provenance Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate, acquired at Lempertz, Cologne, 26./27.11.1982, lot 1009, and thence by descent
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