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PROVENANCE NOTE
– Yuey Collection, San Francisco, USA, 1970. – Two different types of you vessels of addorsed owl shape were
– Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm E. McPherson Collection, USA. made during the Shang dynasty:
– Christie’s New York, USA, Mar. 19, 2008, lot 482. – those covered overall with dense decoration in high relief on a
– Deydier Ch. / Oriental Bronzes Ltd, London, UK, 2008. leiwen background.
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 2008. – those of a more austere form with minimalist or simplified
designs exemplified by the minimalism of the present example.
EXHIBITED

– Christie’s New York, Mar. 19, 2008.
SIMILAR EXAMPLES

– A you excavated in 1957 from Shilou, Shanxi province, was included
in the exhibition: The Genius of China, Royal Academy of Art,
London, 29 Sep. 1973 – 23 Jan. 1974, no. 81.
– A you in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Foster
K.E., A Handbook of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Pomona College,
Claremont, California, rev. ed., 1949, p. 69, no. 28.
– The you included in the Kaikodo autumn exhibition, New York
1996, no. 49, also has a faceted finial, but has loops on its shoul-
der for the attachment of the handle, rather than taotie masks,
and the remains of a plaited-rope-form handle.
– A you from the Doris Duke Collection was sold in Christie’s
New York, 21 Sep. 2004, lot 145.

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