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PROPERTY OF A SWISS COLLECTOR
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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is decorated with two taotie on the sides centred by an animal mask cast
in relief, reserved on a leiwen band. There are two further masks by the animal heads
above the handles. The patina is of a mottled green and brown tone, with some areas of
malachite encrustation.
7¬ in. (19.4 cm.) diam.
£10,000-20,000 $13,000-25,000
€12,000-23,000
PROVENANCE
From a Swiss collector, acquired in France in 1988.
Compare the present lot to a similar gui, also dated to the early Western Zhou
dynasty, illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang
and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp. 254-5, pl. 42.
西周早期 青銅饕餮紋簋
來源: 瑞士私人珍藏, 於1988年購自法國
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