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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE HARTMAN
COLLECTION
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AN ARCHAIC RITUAL BRONZE WINE VESSEL, POU Ritual bronze pou vessel appeared as early as the transitional period
Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 12th-10th century B.C. between Erligang and Anyang Period. In the Shang dynasty, the pou
Heavily cast and boldly decorated with three large taotie masks around form is a rounded squat jar with relatively flat decoration. The present
the body, each centered with a ram's head in high relief on the angled example retains the squat form and the layout of the design, but
shoulder, the neck decorated with two bowstrings below the everted the angled shoulder, the tall, thick flanges, and the high relief ram's
rim, the vessel divided by three sets of thick flanges, the high splayed heads and taotie masks are new characteristics recognized as early
foot with small square openings and similarly decorated with three Western Zhou. Compare, for example, a Shang dynasty bronze pou
taotie masks, the surface with attractive green malachite and lightly in the collection of Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in the catalog
encrusted earth, the interior cast with a 5-line, 31-character inscription. of the exhibition Eternal Beauty: from Karamono Tea Ceramics to
9 1/2in (24.2cm) high; 13in (33cm) wide including flanges; Bronzeware, Tokyo, 2012, p. 84, no. 116, described as late Shang
dynasty.
$25,000 - 40,000
The same pictogram clan sign lü (旅) also appeared on a bronze gu
西周早期 西元前十二-十世紀 三羊首饕餮紋青铜瓿 of very unusual form, unearthed in 1976 from storage pit no. 1 at
Zhuangbo, Fufeng county, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Wen Fong
Provenance: (ed.), The Great Bronze Age of China: an Exhibition from the People's
Mathias Komor, New York, according to label Republic of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1980,
pp. 206 and 219, no. 46, fig. 66.
來源：
紐約Mathias Komor古董行，根據標籤 X-Radiography of the vessel and inscription is available upon request.

The five-line, 31-character inscription begins with a cyclical date of wu
chen (戊辰), and ends with a pictogram which may be transcribed as
lü (旅), a clan sign.

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