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The present Zuo Bao Yi Gui as documented in the Xiqing gujian (Mirror of Antiquities [prepared in
the] Xiqing [Southern Study Hall]), Imperial Printing Ofice in the Wuyingdian (Hall of Martial Valor),
Forbidden City, Beijing, 1755, vol. 14, p. 7. Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Image copyright © The Palace Museum. Library.
本件作寳彜簋在清乾隆二十年（1755）武英殿刊本《西清古鑑》，卷14，頁7中的
著錄。故宮博物院藏。
Featured in exhibitions in Detroit and New York, this gui has also passed through
the galleries of such prominent art dealers as C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 (1880–1957),
Eskenazi Ltd. and Michael Goedhuis Ltd.
A strikingly beautiful bronze and one with an exceptionally distinguished
provenance, this gui is art-historically important for its reinterpretation of the
traditional gui form through the addition of four legs. In fact, it is a major
monument in the history of Western Zhou bronzes.
Robert D. Mowry
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus,
Harvard Art Museums, and
Senior Consultant, Christie’s
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