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PROVENANCE
– Mrs. Félix Guggenheim Collection, Beverly Hills, USA. – Other similar zun with some variations in the subsidiary bands are in
– Alan & Simone Hartman Collection, New York, USA. – the British Museum, illustrated by Watson W., Ancient Chinese
– Christie’s New York, USA, 25 March 1998, lot 36. Bronzes, London 1962, pl. 9a;
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 1998. – the Metropolitan Museum of Art, included in the exhibition
Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, the Asia Society, New York
EXHIBITED 1968, Catalogue, p. 74 and 75, no. 29;
– the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated, by Lefebvre R.Y.
– Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Ancient Chinese d’Argencé, Bronze Vessels of Ancient China, San Francisco
Bronzes, 1976, no. 10. 1977, p. 40 and 41, pl. 12 (top left).
– Christie’s New York, 25 Mar. 1998, lot 36. – One similar zun was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition,
Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art,
PUBLISHED Oct. 12 – Dec. 2 1990, cat. no. 12.
– Kuwayama G., Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Los Angeles County Museum,
1976, cat. no. 10.
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– Christie’s New York, Mar. 25 1998, lot 36.
SIMILAR EXAMPLES

– A similar zun is illustrated by Karlgren B., Some Characteristics of
the Yin Art, B.M.F.E.A., no. 32, Stockholm 1960, pl. 22(b).
– Another zun with the same decoration cast in relief rather than
flat cast is also illustrated by Karlgren, op. cit., pl. 20(b).

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