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

Lot 576

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN ), LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU
DYNASTY
Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 USD

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN)
LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
商末 / 西周初 青銅饕餮紋尊

cast with a short slightly splayed foot supporting a globular body surmounted by a trumpet neck, the sides of the belly
cast with three taotie masks, their horns, jaws, and other features abstractly rendered in low-relief hooked curls and the
hemispherical eyes emerging in high relief, a narrow band of leiwen and bosses above the angled shoulder interrupted by three
raised ram masks aligned with the taotie masks below, the foot and lower neck each cast with two parallel string-relief bands, the
green patina mottled with various tones of green and pale blue encrustation

Height 8⅛ in., 20.5 cm

Provenance
Joseph Chan, Hong Kong, 1980.
Hong Kong Private Collection.

來源
Joseph Chan，香港，1980年
香港私人收藏

Catalogue Note

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-chinese-art?locale=en 110/435