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1207 PROVENANCE:
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU Acquired in Japan in 1982.
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH BC
來源:1982年購於日本
商晚期 青銅壘紋觚
There is a single graph of unknown reading cast on the interior of the foot,
The tall slender vessel is divided into three sections. The trumpet-shaped comprising of what appears to be an animal within a three-sided square.
upper body is crisply cast with four upright cicada blades. The central section Single character inscriptions like this one often occur on bronzes from the
and spreading foot are decorated with a dense leiwen and taotie-pattern band late Shang period and Early Western Zhou, and it is most likely to be a clan
divided by four vertical ribbed fanges. The surface has a pale green-grey emblem or insignia.
patina with areas of bluish-green encrustation. The interior of the base is cast
with a single graph.
10¿ in. (25.8 cm.) high
£8,000-12,000 $13,000-18,000
€11,000-16,000
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