TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Details

A BRONZE BASIN
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The shallow basin has steep sides with a flat base and has a smooth green patina with patches of malachite encrustation.
8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1999.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3093.

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Lot Essay

A bronze basin of very similar form unearthed in 1957 from a Sui dynasty tomb located in the outskirts of Xi’an, is illustrated in Tang Chang’an cheng jiao Sui Tang mu (Excavations of Sui and Tang Tombs at Xi’an), Beijing, 1980, pl. 13:4, and described on p. 20.

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