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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 570

AN IMPO RTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (GUI ), WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 USD

AN IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (GUI)
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
西周 侁簋

well cast with the compressed body resting on a tall splayed foot, decorated below the gently everted rim with a band of two pairs
of stylized confronting birds against a leiwen ground, centered by beast masks in high relief and interrupted by a pair of loop
handles issuing from horned animal heads and set with pendent tabs, the foot similarly decorated with a band of confronting birds,
the interior with a six-character inscription reading zuo fu yi bao gui shen, the surface with an attractive malachite encrustation

銘文：
作父乙寶簋 侁

Width 11⅝ in., 29.5 cm

Provenance
Collection of A. F. Glathe.
Collection of William A. Klink (1923-2019), acquired prior to 1947, and thence by descent.

來源
A. F. Glathe 收藏
威廉姆•克林克 (1923-2019) 收藏，得於1947年之前，此後家族傳承

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