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A BRONZE RITUAL WATER VESSEL, PAN

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HKD 1 500 000
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30.11.2023 11:15UTC +08:00
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ID 1076167
Lot 2853 | A BRONZE RITUAL WATER VESSEL, PAN
A BRONZE RITUAL WATER VESSEL, PAN

MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

The interior has a later-added graph in the centre and an inscription to one side.

14 ¼ in. (39.5 cm.) wide across handles, box





Provenance

Frank Caro, New York, 3 June 1965

Elizabeth A. Sackler, 1994

The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

Sold at Christie’s New York, 14-15 September 2017, lot 906



Literature

R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China (slide lectures), New York, 1968

N. Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 1065

Minao Hayashi, In Shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu (A Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels), vol. 2, Tokyo, 1984, pl. 362, no. 42

J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 720-24, no. 122



Exhibited

Athens, Greece, Museum of Cycladic Art, Grasslands: Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes From the Arthur Sackler Foundation, 25 April-14 September 2002; Poznan, Poland, Poznan Archaeological Museum, 29 January-18 April 2004; Florence, Italy, National Archaeological Museum, 15 May-4 September 2004; Traverse City, Michigan, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, 18 January-30 March 2009, and 21 others
Applied technique:Metalwork
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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