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Thursday 14 sepTember 2017 VARIOUS PROPERTIES
2.00 pm (LoTs 901-1051) 901
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
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LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH
CENTURY BC
The trumpet-shaped neck is fat-cast with four
upright blades rising from a band of leiwen pattern,
and the middle section and spreading foot with
taotie masks divided and separated by narrow
notched fanges, those on the foot below a band of
kui dragons, all on a leiwen ground and flled with
leiwen. A single graph is cast on the interior of the
foot. The bronze has a mottled green patina.
10æ in. (27.3 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 9 June 1992, lot 2.
商晚期 青銅饕餮紋觚
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