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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI Compare with a closely related bronze gui, but with dragons on the
Late Shang Dynasty frieze, also late Shang dynasty, in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese
The deep rounded boy rising from a tall spreading foot to an everted Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, see Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji
rim, the neck decorated with a frieze of birds on a leiwen ground and (The Completed Collection of Chinese Archaic Bronzes), Beijing, 1997,
divided at the middle by two raised taotie masks, the foot cast with vol.2, pl.86.
two widely-spread taotie masks in low relief, the bronze patinated to a
green and reddish colour, box.
17.2cm (6 3/4in) high (2). 敞口折沿，身向下緩收，圈足外撇，頸部飾一周鳳鳥紋帶飾，鳳鳥每面
三隻相對望，前後正中一凸起之立體饕餮紋隔開，身腹素面，圈足前
HKD500,000 - 600,000 後飾饕餮紋一面，以雷紋為地，正中出矮戟，紅綠鏽。
US$64,000 - 77,000
此簋可參考中國社會科學院考古研究所藏一件出土於殷墟的商代晚
商晚期 青銅鳳鳥饕餮紋簋 期寢出簋，見《中國青銅器全集》，北京，1997年，卷2，圖版86。

Provenance:
An American private collection, Texas
Lotus Gallery, Austin, Texas, 25 March 2011

來源:
美國德克薩斯州私人舊藏
Lotus Gallery，美國德克薩斯州奧斯汀，2011年3月25日

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