Page 32 - Important Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes from a Distinguished European Collection

1504 THE TIE ZHU GU 商晚期 公元前十二至十一世紀 聑竹觚一對
A VERY RARE AND FINELY CAST PAIR OF
BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSELS
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Each vessel is cast on the trumpet-form neck with four leiwen-flled blades 來源
rising from a band of S-shaped serpents. The middle section and spreading 倫敦蘇富比，1949年7月19日，拍品97號。
foot are cast on either side with the disconnected parts of a taotie, those on R.E.R. Luff伉儷收藏，倫敦。
the foot below a band of kui dragons. All of the elements of the decoration Bluett and Sons，倫敦，1982年。
are reserved on a fne leiwen ground, and divided by four vertical fanges,
those on the neck extending beyond the mouth rim. Each is cast inside the 展覽
foot with a composite clan sign. The bronze has a mottled green and reddish 倫敦，東方古陶瓷學會，《The Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes》
patina. ，1951年11月7日至12月15日。
12º in. (31 cm.) high 著錄
(2) 東方古陶瓷協會，《Transactions of The Oriental Ceramic Society
1950-1951》，倫敦，1953年，頁80，編號54及55。
$400,000-600,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 19 July 1949, lot 97.
The Mr. and Mrs. R.E.R. Luf Collection, London.
Bluett and Sons, London, 1982.
EXHIBITED
London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, The Exhibition of Early Chinese
Bronzes, 7 November to 15 December 1951.
LITERATURE
The Oriental Ceramic Society, Transactions of The Oriental Ceramic Society
1950-1951, London, 1953, p. 80, nos. 54 and 55.

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30 POWER and PRESTIGE IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE RITUAL BRONZES FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION