China, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 481-256 B.C.H. 10,4... Lot 15

China, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 481-256 B.C.H. 10,4 cmCast bronze in two parts with malachite patina and earth incrustations, on four zoomorphic feet with tiger head-shaped spout and handle, the lid with ornament in the shape of a mandarin duck.From the Zeileis Collection, collected in the 1980s and 1990sCompares with a simpler executed piece in the Musée Cernuschi in Paris, publ. in Christian Deydier: Chinese Bronzes, New York, 1980, p. 228, no. 80Published in: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, 'From Shang to Qing, Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze', Gallspach, 1999, no. 97, pp. 276-277 - signs of age.