CHINE, dynastie Ming Vase à haut col en bronze, touhu à patine brune, le col orné de anses tubulaires, deux dragons stylisés rampant sur le col. La panse ornée de tubes et masques de taotie en leger relief. Hauteur : 52 cm Pour un vase identique vendu aux enchères, voir Bonhams vente du 6 novembre 2014, lot 388 CHINA, Ming dynasty. A large and unusual bronze 'arrow' vase, touhu with flattened circular body cast with four taotie masks each separated by a cylindrical tube, all raised on a spreading foot cast with lappets above foaming waves, the tall slender neck with two further cylinders attached at an angle between two applied writhing chilong dragons each clutching a lingzhi spray in its mouth, all beneath four further cylinders attached vertically at the mouth and cast with further taotie masks on a leiwen ground. 中國 明 浮雕螭龍紋銅投壺