A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU

Lot 716
25.03.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 40 000
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ID 718592
Lot 716 | A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

The flaring trumpet neck is cast with four scroll-filled blades rising from a narrow band of cicadas above the mid-section cast with two taotie masks divided and separated by notched flanges, which are repeated on the spreading foot below a further narrow band of cicadas, all reserved on a leiwen ground. The interior of the foot is cast with a four-character inscription.

10 3⁄8 in. (26.3 cm.) high







Provenance

Sotheby’s London, 11 May 1965, lot 101.





Literature

Wang Tao and Liu Yu,  A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's, Shanghai, 2007, no. 236.





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