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PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION
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A SMALL ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZHI For a similar zhi dated to the late Shang or early Western Zhou
Early Western Zhou dynasty, 10th century BC dynasty and bearing a three-character inscription reading as a
Raised on a high foot cast with a band of diagonal lozenges enclosing dedication to Zi Zu Ji, see Jessica Rawson, The Bella and P.P. Chiu
t-shaped whorls and raised ‘eyes’ under a plain tapered body Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, pp. 60-
bisected at the waist with a horizontal band of simple taotie masks, 61, no. 17. It too has a thin band of decoration on the upper body. A
the interior foot cast with a two-character pictogram; the vessel similar vessel found at Shandong Feicheng is also cited, see Wenwu,
covered with a brown patina with some malachite encrustation and 1982.9, pp.34-43, fig. 41.
burial earth.
5 5/8in (14.3cm) high

$10,000 - 15,000
西周早期 公元前十世紀 青銅觶

Provenance:
Sotheby’s New York, 19th March 2007, Fine Chinese Ceramics and
Works of Art, including property from the Collection of the Albright
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, lot 532
Christie’s New York, 21st September 2004, lot 157

來源:
蘇富比紐約，2007年3月19日，拍品編號532
佳士得紐約，2004年9月21日，拍品編號157

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