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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The flaring trumpet neck is cast with four scroll-filled blades rising
from a narrow band of cicadas above the mid-section cast with
two taotie masks divided and separated by notched flanges, which
are repeated on the spreading foot below a further narrow band of
cicadas, all reserved on a leiwen ground. The interior of the foot is
cast with a four-character inscription.
10u in. (26.3 cm.) high

$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s London, 11 May 1965, lot 101.
LITERATURE:
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with
Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's, Shanghai, 2007, no. 236.
The inscription may be translated as, 'X (personal name) Guan.
Father Geng.'
A gu of similar proportions and decoration is illustrated by R.
W. Bagley, in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections, Washington D.C., 1987, p. 241, no. 33. See, also, the
similar gu illustrated by W.T. Chase in Ancient Chinese Bronze Art,
China House Gallery, New York, 1991, no. 9, and another by M. Loehr
in Relics of Ancient China, The Asia Society, 1965, p. 41, no. 11.
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
私́珍藏
ⱷ715
晚商ǎՌ元ע十̣至十ˏˠ紀ǎ青銅饕餮紋觚
A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZHI 私人珍藏
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC 銘文 ƹ毌ḍ庚
晚商/西周早期 公元前十二至十一世紀 青銅魚觶
The neck of the pear-shaped vessel is encircled by a band of diamond pattern formed by
angular leiwen spirals between narrow borders of D-shaped scales or feathers repeated 銘文: 魚 Ϝ源
on the tall foot. The interior of the foot is cast with a graph in the form of a fish. The і敦蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
patina is dark grey with areas of malachite encrustation. 來源:
֨ḛ
5º in. (13.4 cm.) high, brocade box Gump’s, 舊金山, 1940年
汪濤及劉雨
Ǘ流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄ǘ
˖海
年
編號
華盛頓特區私人珍藏
$20,000-30,000 紐約佳士得, 2012年3月22-23日, 拍品編號1506
出版:
PROVENANCE:
Gump’s, San Francisco, 1940.
吳鎮烽, 《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成續編》, 上海, 2016, 卷2, 頁
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
500, 編號0711
Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1506.
LITERATURE:
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng xu bian, Shanghai,
2016, vol. 2, p. 500, no. 0711.
Similar bands of diamond pattern or angular leiwen spirals bordered by circles rather
than scales can be seen on two bronze you illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual
Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington
DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, p. 384, nos. 67 (of
cylindrical form) and 68 (of pear shape), which are dated 11th century BC. Several other
vessels with a similar band are also illustrated, pp. 392-3, figs. 68.5 - 68.7.
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