Lot: 568
Warring States Period, 3rd Century BCE.
The globular vessel raised on cabriole legs, fitted with a pair of bail handles, and surmounted by a shallow domed cover with single loose ring inlaid in silver alloy with concentric banding of diagonal-scroll patterning interspersed with quatrefoil flower heads the body below the spout is inlaid with eleven silver alloy characters with handsome mottled verdigris patination.
Translation of Inscriptions: Sheng commissioned to create this tripot vessel, in pray of gaining protection of ten thousand years of future generations.
Approximately Width 8.3, Height 7, Depth 8.5.
Property from a San Francisco Collection.
Auction Date: December 7, 2019
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000