ID 1165021
Lot 1145 | A RARE INSCRIBED BRONZE BELL WITH DRAGON-HEADED CLAPPER
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)
The bell is engraved on either side with a long, vertically oriented inscription flanked on one side by a dragon and on the reverse with a bird grasping a fish in its beak.
11 7⁄16 in. (29 cm.) high
Provenance
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection, New York, collection no. B1573, by 1989.
The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection: Chinese Archaic & Gilt Bronzes; Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2002, lot 142.
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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