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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
Late Shang dynasty
Finely cast with a cylindrical body between a flared foot and tall Similar archaic bronze gu vessels, dated to the late Shang dynasty,
trumpet mouth, the neck cast with four stylized cicada blades above can be found in important museum collections. Compare two similar
a leiwen band, the body and foot cast with pairs of taotie masks gu illustrated in Bronzes in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, pp.68-
with raised bosses forming eyes and divided by four raised notched 69, nos.40 and 43; and another example illustrated in Robert Bagley,
flanges, all against a leiwen ground, the surface with areas of Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1987,
malachite encrustation. pl.31.
10 3/8in (26cm) high
$10,000 - 15,000
商末 青銅饕餮紋觚
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