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PROPERTY OF A LADY Similar you include one illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Western
Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
AN EXCEPTIONAL ARCHAIC BRONZE vol. 2B, Washington D.C., 1990, pls 72 and 74 and ! g. 114.4;
RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER (YOU)
another in the Sumitomo Collection, published in Sen-oku
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH Hakko Kan. Sumitomo Collection, Kyoto, 1982, pl. 23; and a
CENTURY BC third, formerly in the Lu$ Collection and included in William
Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962, pl. 24a, sold
well cast of oval section, the slightly compressed pear-shaped
in these rooms, 7th December 1983, lot 52. See also a related
body supported on a splayed foot, encircled by a band of pairs
example of rounder form, illustrated in Bronzes in the Palace
of crested birds confronted by taotie masks all on a leiwen
Museum, Beijing, 1999. pl. 171.
ground, the band interrupted on each side by a loop supporting
the U-shaped bail handle with bovine-mask terminals cast with Further related you include one published in Jessica Rawson,
further bird motifs and lozenge-shaped bosses, the ! tted and The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, London, 1992, pl. 40;
domed cover with a matching bird frieze, projecting tabs and another, illustrated in Sueji Umehara, Selected Relics of Ancient
hollow oval knop, a smooth gray-green patina with malachite Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Japan, vol. 1, Osaka, 1959,
encrustation, the interior of the vessel and cover each with pl. 75; one in the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated in Charles
a ! ve-character inscription reading Wei zuo bao zun yi (Wei Fabens Kelley and Chen Meng-Chia, Chinese Bronzes from the
made this precious ritual vessel), two Japanese wood boxes Buckingham Collection, Chicago, 1946, pl. XXVII, and a fourth
(6) in the Idemitsu Museum, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in
Height 7½ in., 19 cm the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 69.
PROVENANCE $ 300,000-500,000
Japanese Private Collection. Гմڋ ʮʩۃɤ˰ߏ ڡზჾ௢७ᠻ
Sotheby’s New York, 11th September 2012, lot 163.
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The box for this lot is inscribed with a note by Zouroku Hata.
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Outstanding for its remarkably preserved crisp decoration of Ը๕
crested birds over a leiwen ground, which complements the
elegant pear-shape body, this you is characteristic of vessels ˚͉ӷɛϗᔛ
made in the early Western Zhou dynasty, as seen in its slightly ॲߒᘽబˢ2012ϋ9˜11˚dᇜ໮163
compressed form and the projecting triangles on the cover.
Bronze you are sacri! cial wine vessels that emerged as one
of the major ritual receptacles in the late Shang dynasty and
remained prominent until the middle Western Zhou dynasty.

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