A LARGE BRONZE ‘PEACH FESTIVAL’ AND ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’ ARROW VASE, TOUHU, MING DYNASTY

A LARGE BRONZE ‘PEACH FESTIVAL’ AND ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’ ARROW VASE, TOUHU, MING DYNASTY China, 1368-1644. Finely cast, the compressed globular body rising from a splayed and tiered foot pierced with lobed apertures, surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck set with two tubular ‘target’ lugs. The body decorated in relief with luduan masks divided by flanges below a recumbent ox and luduan, separated by peaches borne on thick vegetal stems, all against a diaper-patterned ground. The neck

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