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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, POU Pou seem to have been common in the transitional period between the
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC Erligang and Anyang periods, but appear to have become less popular in the
later Anyang period, and by the Zhou dynasty were no longer being made.
The slightly compressed body is cast in shallow relief with a central band of
taotie masks on a leiwen ground, centered by a low flange, below a narrow
band of confronted kui dragons divided by three raised beast-head masks. A pou with similar cast decoration and similar large bovine masks cast in
The splayed foot has two pierced apertures above a band of addorsed birds relief on the shoulder is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in
and beast masks. the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, 1987,
p. 334, no. 57. Also illustrated, p. 337, fig. 57.3, is another very similar pou in
13 in. (33 cm.) wide the Museé Cernuschi, Paris. Further comparable pou include the example
illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection,
$40,000-60,000 Taipei, 1998, pp. 388-9, no. 65, and the pou excavated from Wulang Temple
in Zhenggu county, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi
Quanji - 4 - Shang (4), Beijing, 1998, p. 102, no. 105.
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s New York, 7 December 1983, lot 49.
Private collection, New York.
Christie’s New York, 4 June 1992, lot 179. 重要私人珍藏
Private collection, Canada.
Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2002, lot 18. 晚商 公元前十二/十一世紀 青銅饕餮紋瓿
來源:
紐約蘇富比, 1983年12月7日, 拍品編號 49。
私人珍藏, 紐約。
紐約佳士得, 1992年6月4日, 拍品編號179。
私人珍藏, 加拿大。
紐約蘇富比, 2002年3月20日, 拍品編號18。

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