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CATALOGUE NOTE
The inscription, integrally cast to the vessel and therefore indisputably contemporary to the piece, reads:
'Ritual altar vessel, known as She Jitan, for Shunde Province' (Guangdong).
Governor Wu Ting Zhu had it commissioned'.
A common feature of the many archaistic bronze pieces of early Ming date is that the archaism displayed is often very
restrained and subtle. This is particularly apparent on the current vessel. For a related example, see another vessel of
archaistic dou form, dated with an incised inscription to 1485, and also without a cover, sold at Christie's London,
22nd July 1981, lot 16.
