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PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
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TWO ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSELS, GU
Shang dynasty, 13th century BCE
Each tall, slender vessel with a flared trumpet mouth finely cast with
four blades enclosing two rows of leiwen, the central section and flared
foot similarly cast with elaborate taotie masks set off by four vertical
notched flanges and separated by paired raised horizontal bands, the
underside each with a single pictogram on the interior of each foot,
the vessel covered in and out with malachite encrustations and burial
earth.
10 3/4in (27.4cm) high; 6 3/8in (16.2cm) and 6 7/8in (17.5cm)
diameter of mouth (2).
$80,000 - 120,000

商 公元前十三世紀 青銅觚兩件

Provenance:
Sotheby’s New York, March 19, 2007, Fine Chinese Ceramics and
Works of Art, including Property from the Collection of the Albright
Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, lot 530, published as Acquired from a
Californian Collector, 1992

來源：
蘇富比紐約，2007年3月19日，拍品編號530

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