ID 1016832
Lot 901 | A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
An eight-character inscription on the interior reads shu xiang zuo fu gui bao zun yi (This precious sacrificial vessel was made by Shu Xiang for Father Gui).
11 1/8 in. (28.4 cm.) across handles
Provenance
J. T. Tai & Co., New York, 1965.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections, New York.
Acquired from the above in 2000.
Literature
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiao jingge jinwen taben (Rubbings of Archaic Bronze Inscriptions at the Xiaojiaojingge Studio), 1935, vol. 5, p. 26, no. 5.
J.C. Ferguson, Lidai zhulu jijin mu (Bronze Inscriptions from Previous Publications), wine vessel, container, zun, Beijing, 1938, p. 104.
N. Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 543.
M. Hayashi, In Shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu (In Shu seidoki soran ichi) (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes), Tokyo, 1984, vol. 2, pl. 88, gui no. 59.
R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China (Slide Lectures), New York, 1968.
J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Washington, D. C., 1990, pp. 350-51, no. 35.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Historical era: | Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC) |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Historical era: | Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC) |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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