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A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU Provenance:
Shang Dynasty Wui Po Kok Antique, Hong Kong, 1990
The slender vessel cast on the flaring trumpet neck with four blades Gisele Croes Arts D’Extreme Orient, Brussels, 2013
of stylised cicada with double eyes forming dispersed taotie masks Jean-Yves Ollivier Collection
in raised relief on a fine leiwen ground, extending from a horizontal
band of kui dragons, the central section cast with further taotie Published and Illustrated:
masks bisected by raised notched flanges, separated from the lower G.Croës, Matter and Memory. Asia Week New York, Brussels, 2014,
section by paired relief ‘bowstring’ lines, the flanges repeated on the pp.30-31
flaring foot enhancing elaborate horizontal kui dragons with c-shaped
horns, the surface displaying a brilliant emerald green patina with vivid 來源：
malachite encrustations, the interior foot with two pictographs reading 香港古董商匯寶閣，1990年
‘Yue fu geng’. 布魯塞爾古董商吉賽爾藝廊，2013年
31cm (12 1/4in) high. 歐宗易先生珍藏

£150,000 - 200,000 出版及著錄：
CNY1,300,000 - 1,800,000 吉賽爾著，《Matter and Memory. Asia Week New York（憶事·紐約亞
洲藝術周）》，布魯塞爾，2014 年，頁30-31
商 青銅饕餮紋觚
「 父庚」銘文

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