Chinese Bronze Vase 18th Century 19th Century Qing Dynasty

A large Chinese bronze archaistic Hu vase.
Qing dynasty, late 18th to 19th century.

The bulbous body rising from a tall splayed foot into a waisted neck with flaring mouth and two loop handles issuing mythical beasts, cast in relief with bands of taotie masks and kui dragons against a leiwen ground. Cast bronze with cast and cold-worked decoration, damascened overlays of silver and gold.

Provenance:
Formerly in a private Belgian collection.

Ref:
Compare with another bronze Hu vessel in the Clague Collection, number 241, illustrated in China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900 (Robert D. Mowry, 1993), p. 194, no. 42.

Dimensions:
Height 40 cm, width with handles 36 cm, diameter 26 cm.

Condition:
Good condition with a nice patina, tiny hole to the bottom and a small piece of the mythical beasts horn-end possibly chipped off but this could also be a casting flaw.

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Inv. No: MW243