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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW JERSEY COLLECTOR
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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI Compare the similar early Western Zhou gui sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC 7 July 2003, lot 616. Another gui with similar decoration, but with different
animal heads surmounting the handles, is illustrated by Y. Mino and J.
The sides are cast with vertical ribbing between an upper band of taotie on Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art,
leiwen ground, centered on each side by an animal mask, and a band of taotie Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, pp. 112-13, pl. 31, where fig. B illustrates
dragons above the foot. The C-shape handles emerge from horned animal another example found in 1973 in Baofengxian, Henan province, and now in
masks and terminate in pendent rectangular tabs cast with stylized scrolls. the Luoyang Museum.
The patina is greyish-green with areas of malachite encrustation to the
surface.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) across handles 新澤西私人珍藏
西周早期 公元前十一至十世紀 青銅饕餮紋簋
$50,000-70,000 來源:
PROVENANCE: 倫敦蘇富比, 18 December 1967年12月18日, 拍品編號103
Sotheby's London, 18 December 1967, lot 103. Michael Michaels珍藏高古中國藝術
The Michael Michaels Collection of Early Chinese Art. 倫敦佳士得, 2017年11月7日, 拍品編號176
Christie’s London, 7 November 2017, lot 176.

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN 紐約顯赫私人珍藏
MID- TO LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC 商中至晚期 公元前十三至十一世紀 青銅三羊尊
The body is cast with a double bow-string band at the base of the trumpet
neck above three horned animal masks projecting from the edge of the 銘文或作: 工貯
shoulder, each each above a narrow vertical flange that bisects a flat-cast
taotie mask with raised boss eyes. The tall spreading foot is cast with a narrow 來源:
band of pairs of birds with backward-turned heads confronting a narrow Alan 及 Simone Hartman 珍藏, 紐約, 1986年
flange. The interior is cast with a two-character inscription possibly reading
gong zhu.
7¡ in. (18.8 cm.) across, padauk stand

$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, New York, 1986.
Similar animal heads with coiled horns and jutting snouts can be seen set
on the shoulder of a zun of larger size (30.2 cm.) dated to the 13 century
th
illustrated by R. W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arhtur M. Sackler
Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1987, p.
264, no. 42, where the author notes, p. 265, the zun displaced the older lei
shape and was one of the more popular vessel types during the first half of
the Anyang period. Also illustrated, p. 276, no. 44, is a zun (17.5 cm.) of similar
proportions to the present example, but with different decoration and raised
on a splayed foot. (inscription)

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