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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU PROVENANCE:
SHANG DYNASTY (1600-1100 BC) Sotheby's London, 8-9 July 1974, lot 3.
Sotheby's London, 8 July 1975, lot 10.
The slender vessel is cast to the mid-section and lower body with taotie masks The Collection of Michael Michaels (1907-1986), and thence by descent within
on a dense leiwen ground, separated by scored vertical fanges. The upper the family.
section is decorated with four stylised cicada blades rising upwards towards
the faring neck. The surface is of a pale greyish-green tone with milky-green
malachite encrustations.
10¾ in. (27.4 cm.) high 商 青銅饕餮蕉葉紋觚
£10,000-15,000 US$14,000-20,000 來源: 倫敦蘇富比1974年7月8及9日, 拍品3; 倫敦蘇富比
€12,000-17,000 1975年7月8日,拍品10
英國藏家邁克爾·麥克（Michael Michaels）(1907-1986)舊
藏, 家傳至今

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