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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL, GUI A gui of identical size and of similar type, from the Arthur Sackler
Late Shang/Early Western Zhou Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. (V384) is illustrated
Of deep bowl form with an everted rim and high waisted foot, the by Christian Deydier, Les Bronzes Archaiques Chinois, Archaic
central band cast with short pointed bosses each set into a leiwen Chinese Bronzes, I, Xia & Shang, Paris, 1995, p. 269, no. 1. Another
patterned ground below narrow frieze of leiwen and zoomorphs under handled version, again similarly cast with diamond-shaped lozenges
the flared rim and more widely spaced taotie masks at the waisted centered by bosses and dated to the Shang dynasty, see Jessica
foot, malachite and earthen encrustation throughout. Rawson, The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection of Ancient Chinese
7in (17.8cm) high; 9 3/4in (24.8cm) diameter, wood box Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, pp. 62-63, no. 19.
$6,000 - 10,000 See a closely related related vessel sold in our London rooms, The
H Collection, 13 May 2021, Lot 7; and another sold in our New York
商晚期/西周早期 青銅簋 rooms, 14 March 2016, lot 8094.
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