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Lot Essay
The inscriptions include a date (seventh day of the fifth month in the second year of Yanxi, corresponding to AD 159), acknowledges the promotion of an official, and states that this bell is to be passed onto his descendants.
For other bronze works with engraved decoration of animals and abstract patterns, see the Warring States (AD 475-221 BC) bronze brassard engraved with animals and insects from Jiangchuan county, Yunnan province, and now in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, and the Western Han bronze arrow quiver engraved with animals and human figures from Kunming, Yunnan province, and now in the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Antiquities, both illustrated in Hunting and Rituals: Treasures from the Ancient Dian Kingdom of Yunnan, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 140-1, no. 81 and pp. 164-5, no. 94, respectively.
See, also, the Han-dynasty bronze flatiron engraved with a long inscription incorporating a date (made in the sixth year of Yongyuan, corresponding to AD 94) and auspicious wishes for descendants, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Bronze Articles for Daily Use – 28 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 147, no. 125.
For other bronze works with engraved decoration of animals and abstract patterns, see the Warring States (AD 475-221 BC) bronze brassard engraved with animals and insects from Jiangchuan county, Yunnan province, and now in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, and the Western Han bronze arrow quiver engraved with animals and human figures from Kunming, Yunnan province, and now in the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Antiquities, both illustrated in Hunting and Rituals: Treasures from the Ancient Dian Kingdom of Yunnan, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 140-1, no. 81 and pp. 164-5, no. 94, respectively.
See, also, the Han-dynasty bronze flatiron engraved with a long inscription incorporating a date (made in the sixth year of Yongyuan, corresponding to AD 94) and auspicious wishes for descendants, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Bronze Articles for Daily Use – 28 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 147, no. 125.