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PROPERTY OF A LADY PROPERTY OF A LADY Compare two similar but larger fanglei; one decorated with
AN INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL AN INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL masks and whorls on both the shoulder and cover, flanked
by a more elaborate pair of handles and lacking a foot, from
WINE VESSEL (ZHI) WINE VESSEL AND COVER (FANGLEI) the Avery Brundage Collection in the Asian Art Museum,
LATE SHANG DYNASTY LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU San Francisco (acc. no. B60B1053); the other, decorated on
DYNASTY front and reverse of the shoulder with a mask between two
the slender elongated pear-shaped body supported on a tall whorls, illustrated in Umehara Sueji, Shina-kodo seikwa, part
spreading foot and rising to a flaring mouth, the body cast of rectangular section with wide shoulders tapering towards 1, vol. 1, Osaka, 1933, pl. 48, preserved in the Abteilung für
with two taotie masks in relief, all between double fillets the tall, splayed foot, the straight neck decorated with two Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen, Berlin. See also a
encircling the neck and foot, the interior with an inscription bow-string bands, supporting a high-domed trapezoidal closely related vessel, lacking one circular whorl on each side
Tianmin fu gui (Tianmin, father Gui), Japanese wood box (3) cover of conforming outline surmounted by a similarly of the cover, sold in these rooms, 20th March 2012, lot 16.
Height 6¾ in., 17.1 cm shaped finial atop a square-sectioned post, the base of
the cover and the shoulders encircled by a band of raised ⊝ $ 60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE circular whorls, the sides flanked by a pair of loop handles
Old Japanese Collection. issuing from bovine heads, with an additional handle on the
Acquired in Tokyo, 2015. front set just above the foot, the interior of the cover cast 商末 / 西周初 冉方罍
with a four-character inscription reading Ran zuo zong yi, 銘文：
⊝ $ 25,000-35,000 translating to ‘Ran made this ritual vessel’, Japanese wood 冉作宗彝
box (5)
Height 13⅞ in., 35.2 cm 來源：
商末 天黽父癸觶
中文，東京
銘文： PROVENANCE 日本私人收藏
天黽父癸 Nakabun, Tokyo. 紐約佳士得2012年9月14日，編號1237
Japanese Private Collection.
來源： Christie’s New York, 14th September 2012, lot 1237. 展覽：
28 日本舊藏 《東美特別展》，東京，1966年，編號23
購於東京，2015年 EXHIBITED
Art Dealers Fair and Exhibition, Tokyo, 1966, cat. no. 23. 本拍品盒蓋內見藏六戊辰年（1928年）題識
The box for this lot is inscribed with a note by Zoroku Hata II
(1854-1936) in 1928.

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PROPERTY OF A LADY
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL
AND COVER (ZHI)
LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU
DYNASTY
the compressed pear-shaped body of oval section rising
from a tall, slightly splayed foot to a flared rim, the waisted
neck flanked by a pair of lug handles and decorated with
borders of geometric motifs echoed on the foot, all below a
frieze of cicadas encircling the rim, the domed cover with a
scrollwork border against a leiwen ground, surmounted by a
finial cast with taotie masks (2)
Height 8⅛ in., 20.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Sze Yuan Tang Collection.
Bonhams Hong Kong, 24th November 2013, lot 571.

⊝ $ 30,000-40,000
商末 / 西周初 青銅幾何紋觶

來源：
思源堂收藏
香港邦瀚斯2013年11月24日，編號571
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