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A GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOK
Warring States Period
The belt hook shaped with a wide curving body
with two taotie masks flanking archaic and intricate
scrollwork, terminating in a small chilong head.
10.8cm (4 1/4in) long.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 44,000

6 戰國 銅鎏金獸首帶鉤

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE
VESSEL, GU
Shang Dynasty, 13th-11th century BC
Of slender form rising to an elegantly flared trumpet
neck, cast on the mid-section with a pair of taotie
masks detailed with raised eyes and divided by
notched flanges, the gently splayed foot decorated
(pictogram) with four stylised dragons reserved on a leiwen
ground, all beneath two bowstrings, the interior foot
with a pictograph reading ‘Wei’.
27cm (10 5/8in) high.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY35,000 - 53,000

商（公元前十三至十一世紀） 青銅饕餮紋觚

Provenance: a Japanese private collection,
prior to the 1980s

來源： 1980年代前由日本私人藏家收藏

Bronze gu were among the most important vessels
used in State rituals during the late Shang dynasty.
Similar archaic gu vessels, Shang dynasty, are
illustrated by R.W.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in
the Arthur M.Sackler Collections, Cambridge MA,
1987, pp.216-227.

Compare with a related archaic bronze ritual wine
vessel, gu, late Shang dynasty, which was sold at
Sotheby’s London, 9 November 2016, lot 106.

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