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DONGXI STUDIO Gu are one of the most essential vessel types in the performance of ritual
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION in the Shang dynasty. The present gu is associated with the early ‘mature’
style of gu from Anyang (late 13th to early 12th century BC) which all exhibit
1390 the same distinctive structure and the same decorative sequence of motifs.
A very similar example is illustrated by R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes
A SUPERBLY CAST BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation,
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC Washington D.C., 1987, pp. 239-41, no. 33.
商晚期 青銅夔龍紋觚
The trumpet-shaped neck of the slender vessel is cast with four
upright leiwen-flled cicada blades rising from a narrow band of 觚為飲酒器，常與爵配套形成商代最基本的禮器組合。本件觚代表了安陽早期（
serpents, and the center section with two taotie masks formed by 公元前十三世紀末至十二世紀初）的成熟青銅器風格，亦即商晚期青銅風格的第
descending dragons separated by narrow notched fanges repeated on 一階段，此期觚的器形與二里崗時期相比更顯修長，而紋飾也更加嚴謹、細緻。
the lower body where they separate four cicadas in a narrow band 貝格立著1987年華盛頓出版《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
above two large taotie masks. The vessel has a mottled greenish-grey Collections》， 239-41頁，編號33。
and buff patina with some malachite encrustation.

12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE

Collection of Captain Dugald Malcolm (1917-2000), England, before
1951.
Nicole De Bisscop.

EXHIBITED

The Oriental Ceramic Society, Early Chinese Bronzes, London, 7
November - 15 December 1951, no. 66.

LITERATURE

Burlington Fine Art, Winter 1939.
The Oriental Ceramic Society, T.O.C.S., London, 1950-51, Vol. 26,
p. 81, no. 66.

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