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Fine Jewelry, Sporting Arts, Asian Works, Fine & Decorative Works

Fri, Jul 11, 2014 06:30PM EDT - Sun, Jul 13, 2014 06:30PM EDT
Lot 145

Archaic Style Bronze [Gui] Food

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Vessel, Two Bronze Vases Chinese, 19th/20th century: bronze [gui] boldly cast with swelling body below inverted rim with band of archaic dragons within framed borders, loop handles with bovine mask terminals terminating to hook pendant tabs, ribbed body, key border at flaring base, mottled greenish patina, 2-3/4 x 6 in. at handles, [small hole drilled over one mask below top rim, various encrustations to interior;] with two similar [gui] bronze bottle vases, each with long neck below flaring rim, 6-3/4 in. and 10-3/4 in., two nonmatching teakwood bases, [both with malachite and ferrous-type encrustations and surface discolorations],