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PROPERTY FROM THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER FOUNDATION

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A BRONZE RITUAL WATER VESSEL, PAN

MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
The shallow body is fanked by a pair of upright U-shaped handles and decorated on the exterior with a
band of scrolls, above a band of reversed Z-shapes with cusped ends on the pedestal foot. The interior has
a later-added graph in the center and inscription to one side.
14º in. (39.5 cm.) wide across handles
$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE

Frank Caro, New York, 3 June 1965.
Elizabeth A. Sackler, 1994.
The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.

EXHIBITED

Athens, Greece, Museum of Cycladic Art, Grasslands: Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes
From the Arthur Sackler Foundation, 25 April-14 September 2002; Poznan, Poland, Poznan Archaeological
Museum, 29 January-18 April 2004; Florence, Italy, National Archaeological Museum, 15 May-4
September 2004; Traverse City, Michigan, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College,
18 January-30 March 2009, and others.

LITERATURE

R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China (slide lectures), Intercultural Arts Press, New York, 1968.
Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese,
Japanese, European, American, and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 1065.
Minao Hayashi, In Shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu (A Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels), vol. 2, Tokyo,
1984, pl. 362, no. 42.
J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, The Arthur M.
Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 720-24, no. 122.
西周中期 青銅竊曲紋盤

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