Page 46 - Fine Chinese Art Bonhams London May 2018

PROPERTY FROM THE MENGDIEXUAN
COLLECTION
夢蝶軒藏品
Lots 35 - 58

35 *
A PAIR OF ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE
VESSELS, GU
Shang or early Western Zhou Dynasty, inscribed
Mu Ning Ri Xin
Each of slender form, rising from a hollow foot to a
slightly bulbous middle section and a tall trumpet
neck cast with four tapering cicada lappetes
decorated with C-scrolls, the base and middle
section cast with four segmented flanges serving
to divide the section into quadrants, each cast with
taotie designs, the interiors of the feet cast with
three pictograms, with box.
19.3cm (7 5/8in) high. (3).
£20,000 - 30,000
CNY180,000 - 270,000
商或西周 青銅饕餮紋觚 一對
「母寧日辛」金文鑄款

Provenance: The Mengdiexuan Collection

Exhibited:
Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong & Urban
Council of Hong Kong, Ancient Chinese and Ordos
Bronzes, 12 October - 2 December 1990
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Metal, Wood, Water,
Fire and Earth: Gems of Antiquities Collections in
Hong Kong, 21 September 2001 - 5 October 2005
Chinese University Hong Kong Art Museum, Divine
Power: The Dragon in Chinese Art, 12 February -
7 November 2012

Published and Illustrated:
J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and
Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, p.116, no.29

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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