ID 1007325 
Lot 852  | A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000 
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
The pear-shaped vessel is cast on the neck and the domed cover with a narrow band of kui dragons confronted on narrow flanges, and raised on a splayed foot encircled by a band of four 'eyes' centering diagonally-arranged scrolls. The arc-shaped handle is decorated with dense lozenge patterns and terminates on each end with an animal-head with bottle horns. The interior of the vessel and the interior of the cover are cast with matching four-character inscriptions reading ya mao fu yi (Ya X. Father Yi).
14 ¼ in. (36.5 cm.) high, zitan stand, Japanese double wood box inscribed by Hata Zoroku I (1823-1890) or Hata Zoroku IV (1898 -1984)
Provenance
In Japan prior to 1939.
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.
Literature
Osaka Municipal Museum, Grand Exhibition of Chinese Art, Osaka, 1939, cat. no. 18.
Minao Hayashi, In Shu Jidai Seidoki no Kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou bronzes), Tokyo, 1986, vol. 1, p. 263, no. 66.
Exhibited
Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum, Grand Exhibition of Chinese Art, 22 April-14 May 1939.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork | 
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| Medium: | Bronze | 
| Historical era: | Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC) | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
| Applied technique: | Metalwork | 
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| Medium: | Bronze | 
| Historical era: | Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC) | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
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