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PROVENANCE
– Wui Po Kok, Hong Kong.
– Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris, France, 2008.
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 2008.
SIMILAR EXAMPLES
– Some similar bronze vessels he are illustrated in Zhongguo qin-
gtongqi quanji – 1 – Xia Shang, Beijing 1996, p. 102 and 103,
nos. 103-104.
NOTES
– Scholars agree that the he was used for liquid, but there is a
debate among them as to whether the he was used to hold fer-
mented beverages, water or a mixture of both.
– According the Shouwen jiezi, (a dictionary cum encyclopaedia
written by Xu Shen in the Han dynasty which features descrip-
tions of shapes and types of ritual vessels and explanations of
their uses) the he was used to mix sauces.
– Most modern scholars believe the he was used to mix water with
fermented beverages.
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