A bronze pouring vessel for wine (jiadou). Bronze. Early Western Han dynasty, 2nd century BC. - image-1

Lot 339 Dα

A bronze pouring vessel for wine (jiadou). Bronze. Early Western Han dynasty, 2nd century BC.

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
07.12.2019, 11:00 - Tibet/Nepal, China
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.728 € (incl. premium)
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A bronze pouring vessel for wine (jiadou). Bronze. Early Western Han dynasty, 2nd century BC.

Globular shape with a thin horizontal ridge around the body, on three thin curved feet with a spout ending in a chicken head with hinged lid, the lid of the ewer attached to the body with a hinge. Greenish grey mottled patina. The handle is missing, the area where it was attached to the body restored.
Height 14.7 cm

西漢早期 青銅差盉
來源：德國科隆 Gottfried Hertel（1925年-2019年），1973年之前購於德國拍賣會

Provenance

Collection Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne, acquired befor 1973 from a German auction house

Literature

Compare similar vessels, illustrated in Sueji Umehara, Nihon shuko shina kodo seika/Selected relics of Chinese bronzes from collections in Japan, Osaka, Yamanaka Co., 1959-1964, vol. 6, plates 518 and 519; Christian Deydier, Chinesische Bronzen, München 1981, p. 126