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A BRONZE TWO-HANDLED CUP, HE

EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH CENTURY BC

    Price Realised USD 6,875
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    A BRONZE TWO-HANDLED CUP, HE

    EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH CENTURY BC

    Price Realised USD 6,875
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    Price Realised USD 6,875
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    The elliptical-form cup is raised on a short foot and decorated with a band of diagonal stripes, and is flanked beneath the mouth by two loop handles.
    6 in. (15 cm.) across


    Provenance
    Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
    Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.
    Literature
    R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, (slide lecture), New York, 1968.
    J. So, Eastern Zhou Bronze Ritual Vessels from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, pp. 94-7, no. 60.
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