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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION

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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU 法४私́珍藏
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
商ǎՌ元ע十˕至十̣ˠ紀ǎ青銅觚
The interior is cast with a the character nian, probably a clan sign.
銘文 念
10q in. (26.6 cm.) high
Ϝ源
$100,000-150,000
і敦蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
葡萄Ḩ貴族私́珍藏
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s London, 24 June 1958, lot 89. 歐洲私́珍藏
%BHVFSSF拍賣行
巴黎德魯奧
年 月 日
拍品編號
Private noble collection, Portugal. ֨ḛ
Une collection européenne; Daguerre, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March 2013, lot 95.
劉雨及盧岩
Ǘ近֨殷周金文集錄ǘ
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年
頁
編號
汪濤及劉雨
Ǘ流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄ǘ
˖海
年
編號
LITERATURE:
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, Jinchu Yinzhou jinwen jilu (Compendium of Bronze 吳鎮烽
Ǘ商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成ǘ
˖海
年
卷
頁
編號
Inscriptions Recently Discovered), Beijing, 2002, p. 160, no. 694.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions
from Sotheby's and Christie's, Shanghai, 2007, no. 205.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Compendium
of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties),
Shanghai, 2012, vol. 17, p. 350, no. 8999.
A gu of similar size and proportions unearthed in 1976 in Anyang, Henan
province, and now in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute
of Archaeology, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 2
– Shang, Beijing, 1997, pp. 109 and 51, no. 105. The gu from Anyang has
decoration similar to that of the current gu, but the four descending kui
dragons on the spreading foot of the gu from Anyang have pierced outlines.

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