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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
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A PAIR OF BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSELS AND COVERS,
GUI
LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY-EARLY SPRING AND
AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-7TH CENTURY BC
Each vessel and cover is cast with bands of hooked scrolls and This pair of footed gui with covers conforms stylistically to others of
horizontal grooves. Each vessel is flanked by handles surmounted by late Western Zhou-early Spring and Autumn date, which are raised on
dragon heads with large horns, and supported on three mask and paw three feet, such as the Western Zhou gui excavated in 1978 at Fu Feng
feet. Each cover is cast inside the circular handle with a coiled dragon. Qi, Shanxi province, now in the Fu Feng County Museum, illustrated
in Zhongguo Qingtongqi, vol. 5, Western Zhou, Part 1, Beijing, 1998,
11 in. (28 cm.) wide across handles (2)
pp. 66 and 67, pls. 69 and 70. See, also, the gui of early Spring and
Autumn date excavated in 1978 at Huang Chuan Peng Dian, Henan
$80,000-120,000
province, now in the Cultural Center, Huang Chuan county, Henan
province, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi, vol. 7, Eastern Zhou,
PROVENANCE:
Part 1, p. 123, pl. 120. Both of these vessels and the present pair of
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1990.
gui share the same use of bands of scrolls and horizontal grooves to
decorate the body and cover, loop handles that issue from dragon
西周晚期/春秋早期 青銅弦紋雙耳三足蓋簋一對 heads, a similar band of scales on the foot between the three feet, and
a circular handle on the cover.

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