A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU

Lot 718
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Lot 718 | A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

The bulbous body is cast on either side with a small ram's-head in relief between double lines, and the swing handle terminates at either side with an animal-head. The plain cover is cast with a circular finial. The interior of the vessel and cover are both cast with an inscription.

The vessel 6 1⁄4 in. (16 cm.) high







Provenance

Collection of Arthur B. Michael, Newton Center, Massachusetts.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1942, no. 1942:16:392.

Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery vol. 2;Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2007, lot 514.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 29 June 2007.





Literature

Chen Mengjia, Mei diguo zhuyi jieliao de wo guo Yin Zhou tongqi jilu, Beijing, 1962.

Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (In Shu seidoki bunrui zuroku; A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections), Tokyo, 1977, A 629, pl. 886, rubbing nos. 387a and b.

S. A. Nash, K. Kline, C. Kotik and E. Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, 1979, p. 100.





Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chinese Bronzes of the Shang through the T'ang Dynasty, 1938, no. 169.
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