A very large gui-type bronze vessel. Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th/17th century - image-1
A very large gui-type bronze vessel. Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th/17th century - image-2
A very large gui-type bronze vessel. Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th/17th century - image-1A very large gui-type bronze vessel. Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th/17th century - image-2

Lot 750 Dα

A very large gui-type bronze vessel. Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th/17th century

Auction 1124 - overview Cologne
08.12.2018, 13:00 - China
Estimate: 2.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.250 € (incl. premium)
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A very large gui-type bronze vessel. Ming/Qing dynasty, 16th/17th century

With large handles in shape of mythical animals. The outside decorated in cast relief with taotie and dragons on a leiwen ground. Inside a four line inscription. Damaged, patina flaked off. Old accession number C 10,8. and collector's number 300 in white ink and paper label with description. Wooden lid with a carved jade knob.
Height 20.8 cm; width 41 cm

明清十六/十七世紀 青銅饕餮龍紋帶木蓋鑲玉鈕簋式爐
來源：科隆東亞藝術博物館，編號10,8
圖見於Bachem， 中國古代青銅器，1933年，圖版37及頁35-36

Provenance

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, acc. no. 10,8. According to the accesion book of the museum traded for a bronze vessel C 25,5, on 21.1.1926
Collection Franz Xaver Bachem (1857-1936), Cologne

Literature

Illustrated in: Bachem 1933, plate 37 and p. 35-36 with a long text about this piece saying that the gui was bought by Professor Adolf Fischer in China in 1906 and that Bachem had acquired it in exchange for an undisclosed object. Mrs. Fischer thought that the gui was a copy dating to the Tang dynasty. Also see plate 83.