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A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL 西周׀ǎՌ元ע十ˏ至十ˠ紀ǎ
AND COVER, YOU 青銅提梁卣
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC 銘文：
Ϝ源
The vessel is cast with a band of vertical narrow ribs between bands of birds
太田貞造珍藏
̺都
年͠ע已Ն日本境Շ
reserved on leiwen around the neck and foot, below a similar band cast on the
秦峰⁸珍藏
神戶
日本
sides of the cover. The interior of the vessel is cast with a single graph, qi.
8º in. (21 cm.) high, Japanese wood box ֨ḛ
梅原末治
Ǘ日本蒐儲支那۵銅★華ǘ
卷ˏ
૯阪
年
$100,000-150,000 編號

PROVENANCE:
Sadazo Ota Collection, Kyoto, in Japan prior to 1959.
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.

LITERATURE:
Sueji Umehara, Nihon shucho shina kodo seika (Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese
Bronzes from Collections in Japan), vol. 1, Osaka, 1959, no. 69.

The graph cast on the interior of the vessel, qi (possibly a clan sign) can be found
on other late Shang and early Western Zhou bronze vessels, such as a bronze jue
and a bronze gu excavated from Xiaqiyuan village, Ci county, Hebei province in
1966, illustrated in Wenwu 1974, vol. 11, pp. 93-94, figs. 12 and 25; and a bronze
zun in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
no. B60B1022.
A very similar you, and possibly the current you, is illustrated by Minao Hayashi
in In Shu Jidai Seidoki no Kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou bronzes), Tokyo,
1986, vol. I, p. 262, no. 61.

(another view) (inscription inside vessel)

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