ID 913056
Lot 1113 | A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The interior of the cover and the vessel are cast with an inscription guang zuo cong yi (Guang made this cong yi vessel).
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Tonying & Company, Inc., New York, by 1964.
William B. Jaffe (1904-1972) and Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) Collection, New York, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Gifts and Loans from the Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe Collection of Asian Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, June 1964, no. 38.
Exhibited
Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Gifts and Loans from the Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe Collection of Asian Art, June 1964.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Shang dynasty, 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 |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Shang dynasty, Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC) |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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