ID 1076167
Lot 2853 | A BRONZE RITUAL WATER VESSEL, PAN
Estimate value
HKD 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
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 |
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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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