A large bronze military drum/bell. South-central/South-west China. Late Eastern Zhou/early Western Han dynasty, 4th/3rd century BC - image-1

Lot 335 Dα

A large bronze military drum/bell. South-central/South-west China. Late Eastern Zhou/early Western Han dynasty, 4th/3rd century BC

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
07.12.2019, 11:00 - Tibet/Nepal, China
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.500 €
Result: 26.040 € (incl. premium)
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A large bronze military drum/bell. South-central/South-west China. Late Eastern Zhou/early Western Han dynasty, 4th/3rd century BC

Of elliptical cross section, the body swells gradually toward the top and ends in a flaring everted lip, on top of the drum a figure of a tiger, each leg standing on a low plinth. Thick blackish patina with some green areas. Carved wooden stand.
Height 52.5 cm

東周晚期/西漢早期 青銅錞于（帶木坐）
+D184），1980年11月27日購於科隆 Carola van Ham 拍賣，編號156
可比：E.A. Voretzsch（著）, Altchinesische Bronzen，柏林 1924年，圖版115號、文物 1974年，第5號，第37頁，圖版21號、Jenny So（著），Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections，The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation，紐約 1995年，圖版82號，第399頁，Eleanor von Erdberg（著）， Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter，1978年，第90號

Provenance

Collection Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne, acquired at Kunsthaus am Museum, Carola van Ham, Cologne, invoice dated 27.11.1980 (lot no. 156)

Literature

Compare similar drums illustrated in Wen Wu 1974, no. 5, p. 37, fig. 21; Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York 1995, no. 82, p. 399 and in the Crow Collection