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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DON B. LICHTY, HONOLULU
The inscriptions cast on the inside of the cover and the base of the vessel
718
read Yuan zuo jia (Yuan made (this) vessel).
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
The present you belongs to a group of vessels from the early Western Zhou
The bulbous body is cast on either side with a small ram's-head in relief
period that are generally left undecorated. A you of similar proportions and
between double lines, and the swing handle terminates at either side
decoration is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes in
with an animal-head. The plain cover is cast with a circular finial. The
the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1990, fig. 72.3, which is
interior of the vessel and cover are both cast with an inscription.
dated to the early Western Zhou period.
The vessel 6º in. (16 cm.) high

$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Arthur B. Michael, Newton Center, Massachusetts.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1942, no. 1942:16:392.
Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery vol. 2;Sotheby's New York, 20
March 2007, lot 514.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 29 June 2007.
EXHIBITED:
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chinese Bronzes of the Shang
through the T'ang Dynasty, 1938, no. 169.
LITERATURE:
Chen Mengjia, Mei diguo zhuyi jieliao de wo guo Yin Zhou tongqi jilu,
Beijing, 1962.
Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (In Shu seidoki bunrui
zuroku; A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections), Tokyo,
1977, A 629, pl. 886, rubbing nos. 387a and b.
S. A. Nash, K. Kline, C. Kotik and E. Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery:
Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, 1979, p. 100.

檀香山DON B. LICHTY舊藏
西周早期 公元前十至九世紀 青銅員作夾卣
銘文: 員作夾
來源:
Arthur B. Michael珍藏, 紐頓城, 馬塞諸塞州
Albright-Knox藝廊, 水牛城, 紐約州, 1942年, 編號1942:16:392
Albright-Knox藝廊(第二部分); 紐約蘇富比, 2007年3月20日, 拍品編號514
藍理捷, 紐約, 2007年6月29日
展覽:
紐約, 大都會博物館, 「Chinese Bronzes of the Shang through the
T'ang Dynasty」, 1938年, 編號169
出版:
陳夢家, 《美帝國主義劫掠的我國殷周銅器集錄》, 北京, 1962年
陳夢家, 《殷周青銅器分類圖錄》, 東京, 1977年, 編號A629, 圖版886, 拓本
編號387a及b
S. A. Nash, K. Kline, C. Kotik and E. Wood, 《Albright-Knox Art
Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942》, 水牛城, 1979
年, 頁100

24 (inscription (inscription 25
in vessel) in cover)