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Lot 125 D α

A bronze beaker of gu type, copy after a Shang dynasty model

Auction 1213 - overview Cologne
09.12.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
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A bronze beaker of gu type, copy after a Shang dynasty model

The splayed foot and central part displaying taotie masks in relief and engraving, the long trumpet shaped neck undecorated. A seal character inside the base. A paper label printed in black Collezione Prodan Roma, and inscribed "Chou middle SWX".
Height 30.8 cm

仿商饕餮紋銅觚
來源: Mario Prodan, 意大利羅馬, 1930 至1946 年間曾為北京和上海的藝術品經銷商
德國南部遺產

Provenance

Mario Prodan, Rome; art dealer in Peking and Shanghai in the 1930s until 1946
Private collection, Southern Germany, and thence by descent