A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU

Lot 1108
24.03.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 913116
Lot 1108 | A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU

SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC

The interior is cast with a the character nian, probably a clan sign.

10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) high





Provenance

Sotheby’s London, 24 June 1958, lot 89.

Private noble collection, Portugal.

Une collection européenne; Daguerre, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March 2013, lot 95.



Literature

Liu Yu and Lu Yan, Jinchu Yinzhou jinwen jilu (Compendium of Bronze Inscriptions Recently Discovered), Beijing, 2002, p. 160, no. 694.

Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's, Shanghai, 2007, no. 205.

Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties), Shanghai, 2012, vol. 17, p. 350, no. 8999.



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