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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN
COLLECTION
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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI An Early Western Zhou gui with similar animal-form handles suspending a
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (12TH-11TH CENTURY BC) pendant and a bevelled foot is held in the Arthur Sackler Collection and is
illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur
The bulbous exterior is cast to the rim with a band of two-bodied serpents and
a band of stylised animals on a ground of leiwen around the foot. The body is M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, pp. 408-409. A further similar example
decorated with a ribbed band, between a pair of animal-form handles, each is found in Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
with drop down pendant. The bronze has a mottled brownish-green patina and Collections, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp.
is covered with extensive green encrustation. 520-521, in which he also discusses the vertical ribbing of the main register,
12Ω in. (31.8 cm.) diam. across the handles which may have its roots in imitating cord-marked pottery which has been
seen as long ago as early Anyang.
£30,000-50,000 $40,000-65,000
€34,000-56,000
There are also a number of Early Western Zhou gui bearing very similar
PROVENANCE decoration, but set on a tall square base rather than rounded foot rim such as
An important private European collection, acquired before 4 June 1975. our present lot. These examples include those in the Sumitomo Collection,
Kyoto and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, as discussed in Jessica
Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
Washington D.C., 1990, vol. IIB, p. 369 in which she references Umehara
1971, vol. 2, no. 29; Taipei 1958, 2.1.74.
西周早期 青銅直稜獸面紋簋

來源: 重要歐洲私人珍藏，於1975年6月4日前購入

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