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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Technique: Hand-Crafted
Important Chinese Ancient Bronze Money Tree, 25BC-220AD
Located in South Burlington, VT
China, Ancient Bronze “Money Tree” Yaoqian Shu with original pottery base, Han dynasty (25 BCE – 220 CE)
Dimensions: 155cm, 62 inches high
A sculpted terracotta pottery base in the form of a tortoise with attendants and inserted with five individual bronze pole segments with twenty four individual hanging bronze open work money “branches” attached in tiers, four per tier and topped with a figure of a bronze phoenix as apex most bearing varying degrees of malachite and azurite encrustation from ancient burial.
Important Description Details:
Pottery "tortoise" base: 14.5" high and 11" wide
Bronze sections:
7pcs pole bronze sections approximately 8" length each
1pc top "phoenix" bronze section approximately 7" high and 6" wide
20 pcs long bronze hanging wings approximately 10" long and 5" wide each
4 pcs short bronze hanging wings (near top) approximately 7" long and 4" wide each
Total 32 pcs with ancient green and blue azurite patina.
Catalog reference: Schneible Fine arts catalog - 35 Years Collecting Treasures- Number 11p. 28 (see photos)
Provenance: Provenance: Private family collection formerly exhibited “Asia Week” New York City, Fuller Building, Zabriskie Gallery, 2008.
History of money trees:
In the late Han Dynasty tombs...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Han Antique Hand-Crafted Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
Han Dynasty, Antique Chinese Pottery Granary Jar
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Chinese pottery granary jar, with cylindrical shape, decorated with bands of incised lines, and supported by three legs.
Age: China, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. - A.D. 220
Size: Heigh...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Hand-Crafted Antiquities
Materials
Pottery
Tang Dynasty Pottery Statue of Lokapala Guardian, Oxford TL Tested
Located in Greenwich, CT
A dramatically and lively modeled pottery statue of Lokapala guardian, Tang dynasty 618-907, come with Oxford authentication TL test certificate.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Hand-Crafted Antiquities
Materials
Terracotta
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