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Property from the Collection🎃 ꦡof Ulrich Hausmann (1947-2023)

An archaistic bronze 'taotie' arrow vase, Ming dynasty

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November 6, 03:25 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Height 19.6 cm, 7 3/4

Ulrich Hausmann, 'Notes on the Topic of Archaism in Later Chinese Bronzes’, Orientations, April 2015, p. 76, figs 13 and 16.

Although the form of the present vase, like most later bronzes, clearly derives from archaic vessels (in this case of hu form), its very low relief decoration of crashing waves and complex swirling scrollwork is quite atypical and belongs stylistically to a specific group made between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. Hausmann suggests that the dating of this vase can be attributed to this period in his article ‘Notes on the Topic of Archaism in Later Chinese Bronzes’ , Orientations, April 2015, p.76, fig. 13 (originally published in German as‚ ‘Anmerkungen zur Problematik des Archaismus der späteren chinesischen Bronzen’, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst, no. 5, October 1993, pp 14 - 25 ). Compare a similar vase, of identical design buಌt for cloud scroll handles, from t𓄧he collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Chinese Decorative Arts, New York, 1997, p. 7; and another excavated from a Yuan dynasty shipwreck off the coast of Korea, illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed Off Sinan: Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 105.