A bronze garlic-head wine vessel of hu type. Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, 4th/3rd century BC - image-1

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A bronze garlic-head wine vessel of hu type. Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, 4th/3rd century BC

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
07.12.2019, 11:00 - Tibet/Nepal, China
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.400 €
Result: 12.400 € (incl. premium)
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A bronze garlic-head wine vessel of hu type. Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, 4th/3rd century BC

Of compressed globular shape, with a long slender neck set with a single raised band, widening to a lobed garlic-head mouth, the surface of a mottled blackish brown patina, probably reworked. Neck restored.
Height 29.9 cm

東周晚期 青銅壺
來源：德國科隆 Gottfried Hertel（1925年-2019年）

Provenance

Collection Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne