AN IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE RITUAL BELL, BIANZHONG

Lot 820
23.09.2022 08:30UTC -05:00
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Lot 820 | AN IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE RITUAL BELL, BIANZHONG
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$ 150 000 – 300 000
AN IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE RITUAL BELL, BIANZHONG

KANGXI CAST MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1713 AND OF THE PERIOD

Heavily cast in barrel form, the bell is decorated in high relief with horizontal bands of bosses alternating with the Daoist Trigrams flanking four vertical panels, one enclosing the reign date Kangxi wushier nian zhi, 'made in the fifty-second year of Kangxi', one bearing the characters, nanlu, denoting its tone, and two enclosing an archaistic dragon beneath a ruyi head, all above a band of large flat discs. The flat top is surmounted by a suspension handle formed by two addorsed dragons.

12 in. (30.5 cm.) high





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Acquired in Georgia or Louisiana by 1967, and thence by descent within the family.
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