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198. Bronze loop-handled cup
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, circa 8 - 5 centuries bc.
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東周春秋時期青銅杯
Length: 13 cm

A deep, melon-shaped cup used for holding water or other Provenance:
beverages. A large loop handle is cast on one side of the ▪ The Ching Wah Lee Collection, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
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vessel and two small lug handles, one of which is partly ▪ Sotheby’s, Los Angeles, 8 June, 1981.
missing, are set on opposite sides of the vessel. The body ▪ Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 11 November,
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of this round, flat-bottomed vessel, with its short neck and 1998.
outwardly turning rim, is decorated on its shoulder with a ▪ Christie’s, New York, 14 September, 2012.
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horizontal band of scrollwork-like, stylized dragons, from ▪ Eskenazi Ltd., London, U.K.
which hang large, triangular, blade-like motifs decorated
with confronting stylized dragons and geometrical motifs. Exhibited:
▪ Sotheby’s, Los Angeles, 8 June, 1981, catalogue
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The vessel has a light green patina. no. 200.
▪ Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 11 November,
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1998, catalogue no. 1406.
▪ Christie’s, New York, 14 September, 2012, catalogue
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no. 1222.
▪ Eskenazi Ltd, London, U.K.
▪ Trésors de la Chine ancienne, Bronzes Rituels De La
Collection Meiyintang, Musée des arts asiatiques
Guimet, Paris 13 mars - 10 juin 2013, catalogue no. 80.
Published:
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▪ Sotheby’s, Los Angeles, 8 June, 1981, catalogue
no. 200.
▪ Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 11 November,
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1998, catalogue no. 1406.
▪ Christie’s, New York, 14 September, 2012, catalogue
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no. 1222.
▪ Guimet, Musée des arts asiatiques, Trésors de la
Chine ancienne, Bronzes Rituels De La Collection
Meiyintang, Paris 2013, p. 130 - 131, no. 80.
Similar examples:
▪ A very similar cup from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections is published by So J., Eastern Zhou Ritual
Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
Vol. III, Washington 1995, p. 294 - 295, no. 54.
▪ Some similar cups are illustrated by Hayashi M.,
Shunju Sengoku Jidai Seidoki no Kenkyu (In Shu
Seidoki Soran San) Studies of Bronzes from the Spring
and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Conspectus
of Yin and Zhou Bronzes, Tokyo 1989, Vol. III, p. 80
- 81.

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