A VERY FINELY CAST BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI

Lot 717
25.03.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 717 | A VERY FINELY CAST BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
A VERY FINELY CAST BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC

The vessel is raised on a tall foot encircled by a band comprised of kui dragons centered on narrow flanges. The body is decorated with a diamond-and-boss pattern below a band with panels of diamond frets centered on two sides by a small animal mask cast in relief and interrupted on the other two sides by a pair of handles issuing from bovine masks. The inscription cast on the interior of the vessel consists of a graph, shou followed by Fu Xin, Zu Ji (Father Xin, Grandfather Ji). The patina is of mottled greyish-green color.

11 1⁄8 in. (28.1 cm.) wide across handles, cloth box







Provenance

Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection, Hong Kong, by 1988.

Michael Goedhuis Ltd., London, 1998.





Literature

N. Barnard and Cheung Kwong-yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, Vol. 7, no. 1387.

J. Rawson, The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, p. 62, no. 19.
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