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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI Bronze gui were made intermittently from the Erligang period onward.
Early Western Zhou dynasty During the Shang period there was a preference for vessels without
The bombé-form body cast in low relief with a band of paired stylized handles known as yu, but during the Western Zhou period gui were
dragons, interrupted by opposing small raised animal masks and loop produced in large numbers; see Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual
handles surmounted by dragon heads, set between the gently flared Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. I B, Cambridge,
mouth and a splayed foot ring cast with a band of similar confronted 1990, p. 347.
dragons meeting to form four taotie masks, the central mask on each
side bisected by a raised flange, the surfaces with a mottled pale Compare a related but smaller Shang dynasty bronze gui, illustrated in
greenish-gray patina and ferrous, azurite and malachite encrustation. op. cit., p. 481, fig. 64.4; and another late Shang-early Western Zhou
12in (30.5 cm) across handles dynasty example which was sold in our London Rooms, 14 May 2015,
lot 4.
$30,000 - 50,000

西周初 青銅夔龍紋簋

Provenance:
Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 149

來源：
紐約佳士得，2006年9月19日，拍品編號149

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