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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 商末 青銅卣
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL
(YOU), LATE SHANG DYNASTY 來源：
(2) 1995年得於香港
Height 10¼ in., 26 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong in 1995.
Similar you vessels of this elliptical shape and with rope-twist
handles, but with a segmented knop on the cover, include one
excavated at Zhangjiapo, Chang’an, Shaanxi province, and
illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes
from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, vol. IIB, Washington
D.C., 1990, fig. 68.3, where the author discusses the gradual
development of the you shape from a short and round vessel
to a taller and elongated type, p. 496. See also a related you,
but decorated on the shoulder with a diamond pattern, in
the Meiyintang Collection, published in Wang Tao, Chinese
Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2009, pl. 26;
and a further example of slightly smaller size, in the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Masterworks of Chinese
Bronze in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1973, pl. 32.
Another archaic bronze you vessel of this form with rope-
twist handles, inscribed with a clan pictogram and originally
from the collection of Wu Dacheng, was sold in these rooms,
22nd March 2023, lot 620.
⊖ $ 50,000-70,000

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