EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE SMALL BRONZE CONTAINER AND COVER
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH CENTURY BC
The vessel of oblong section and pouch-like form, flat-cast on both convex sides with a pair of confronted dragons with boss-like eyes, their scrolled bodies continuing up above their heads to form two other confronted dragons, the flat narrow sides with further dragon scroll that continues under the bottom of the vessel, with a pair of small lug handles projecting from the rim that sit below corresponding loops projecting from the rim of the cover decorated with an S-shaped dragon scroll, with mottled green and reddish-brown patina
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) across handles and high

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Acquired in Hong Kong, 24 June 2000.

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Compare the slightly larger (6.5 cm. high) bronze container of this type, but with different cast decoration, illustrated in Chuugoku Sengoku Jidai no Bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1991, p. 77, no. 90, where it is dated to the Spring and Autumn Period and refered to as a guo. See, also, another example of slightly larger size (6.4 cm. across handles), sold in these rooms, 24 March 2011, lot 1249.