Lot 154
Bronze Silver Inlay ‘Dragon’ Dish, Shisou Mark, 18th/19th Century
Lot 154 Details
Bronze Silver Inlay ‘Dragon’ Dish, Shisou Mark, 18th/19th Century
With a wide rim patterned with a continuous Greek key-fret border and gently sloping towards the shallow cavetto decorated with a dragon soaring amid scrolling clouds and above a band of crashing waves
diameter 10.8" — 27.5 cm.
44 oz. — 1368 grams
Estimate $400-$600
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Provenance:
Chinese Works of Art from the Estate of Elizabeth Helen Livingston (née Kessler, 1928, Frankfurt, Germany). (Lots 263A to 263E). Elizabeth Helen Livingston inherited a small collection of Asian art acquired by her father and grandfather during their travels to China in the late 19th and early 20th C. Her grandfather Johann Friedrich Karl Kessler (1858-1889) and father Alexander Karl Kessler (1885-1964) were owners of Johann Philip Kessler Bank, Frankfurt. Elizabeth moved to Canada in 1950 with her husband Arthur Edwin Livingston.