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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, HU
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD,
LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC
The pear-shaped body is cast in relief with a wide grid of
twisted rope pattern below a slightly waisted neck fanked by
mask handles suspending loose rings. The bronze has a dark,
mottled patina and some green encrustation.
12¬ in. (32.2 cm.) high

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE
Frank Caro, New York, 1965.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
EXHIBITED
On loan: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
In twenty-fve museums internationally and in the United States,
Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M.
Sackler Foundation, 2002-2012.
LITERATURE
R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, (slide lecture),
New York, 1968.
J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections, New York, 1995, pp. 244-47, no. 41.
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