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A Chinese Bronze Temple Bell Bears Shunzhi period marks, 1644 -…
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Melbourne
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8-Aug-2007
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A Chinese Bronze Temple Bell Bears Shunzhi period marks, 1644 - 1661 Of flared serpentine form, the body etched and embossed with date marks, the eight trigrams and calligraphy symbols, surmounted by a twin headed serpentine dragon, supported on a later pierced and carved Chinese rosewood stand, the bell 71 cm high, 55 cm diameter, the stand 153 cm high, 104 cm wide. Provenance: Four Seasons Art Gallery, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Information supplied reads ' According to the inscriptions, the bell was made in the early Ching Dynasty, the 8th year of Shun Chih, 1615 AD. By three craftsmen named Wang Pao-Shan, Liu Wen-Yuan and Yu Shao-Hsin as a tribute to the Tien Chu Sze, a temple, for veneration of god. As to the location of the temple, it is difficult to determine the exact province, but the designs on the bell show that it belonged to a mosque which presumably engaged in the extraction and manufacture of medicines.'
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