A bronze mirror. Warring States period (480-221 BC) - image-1

Lot 650 Dα

A bronze mirror. Warring States period (480-221 BC)

Auction 1136 - overview Cologne
08.06.2019, 13:00 - Chinese Art
Estimate: 250 € - 300 €
Result: 682 € (incl. premium)
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A bronze mirror. Warring States period (480-221 BC)

Very thin and with a concave rim. At the centre a fluted knob within a square, surrounded by four shan shapes against a patterned ground with four four-petalled flowers and abstract forms. Broken and restored.
Diameter 13.3 cm

Collection Hugo Vedder (1926-2006) and Gerda Vedder (1932-2019)

Hugo Vedder was the owner of a sophisticated furniture store in Dusseldorf. The company was founded in 1899 by his father in Lüdinghausen in Westphalia, where furniture was produced in the most careful manual work. In the 1960s, Hugo Vedder sold high quality furniture and interiors in the Danish style. While his wife Gerda (1932-2019) collected Art Nouveau ceramics and Meissen porcelain, Hugo Vedder took a liking to East Asian glazes and vessel shapes.

Provenance

Collection Hugo Vedder (1926-2006) and Gerda Vedder (1932-2019), Lüdinghausen, Germany