A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN

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$ 40 000
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23.09.2022 08:30UTC -04:00
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ID 807401
Lot 828 | A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN

MID- TO LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC

The body is cast with a double bow-string band at the base of the trumpet neck above three horned animal masks projecting from the edge of the shoulder, each each above a narrow vertical flange that bisects a flat-cast taotie mask with raised boss eyes. The tall spreading foot is cast with a narrow band of pairs of birds with backward-turned heads confronting a narrow flange. The interior is cast with a two-character inscription possibly reading gong zhu.

7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) across, padauk stand





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Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, New York, 1986.

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