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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, GUI Compare the current vessel to a gui of very similar form in the Sackler
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (1100-771 BC) Collection, dated to the late Western Zhou period, supported on tripod feet
The body is cast with horizontal grooves between a double band of stylised and with comparable horizontal grooves characteristic of the late Western
scale patterns to the rim and a lappet band to the foot and is fanked by two Zhou dynasty, illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes
animal-head C-form handles. The vessel is supported on three claw-form feet from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation,
with animal heads to the top. The cover is similarly decorated with concentric 1990, p. 446, no. 57. The Sackler example is decorated with three single
grooves and a further band of scale patterns. There is a later-added inscription
bands of scale patterns to the mouth rim and foot of the vessel, and to the
to the interior base of the vessel and to the interior of the cover.
rim of the cover, whereas the present gui is cast with a double band of scale
12Ω in. (31.8 cm.) wide, across the handles
patterns to the rim and an attractive lappet band to the foot.
£30,000-50,000 US$38,000-62,000
€34,000-57,000
西周 青銅簋
PROVENANCE:
C.T. Loo, Paris, by repute. 來源:
Private European Collection, acquired prior to 1998. 巴黎古董商盧芹齋(1880-1957)(傳)
歐洲重要私人珍藏，於1998年前所購

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