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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ERIC WESENBERG, For a near identical example, perhaps the same bronze, see
CALIFORNIA Sotheby’s, London, 9 November 2005, lot 491. See also another very
similar archaic-bronze exemplar, sold at Christie’s, New York, The Sze
4 Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection, 15
AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE SLOPING RECTANGULAR VESSEL September 2010, lot 871.

AND COVER, FU
Song/Ming Dynasty For two other pre-cursors of the ‘Spring and Autumn’ period, (circa
Of rectangular shape, the vessel and cover are flat-cast in 770 – 476 BCE.), see Christian Deydier, Understanding Ancient
impercetable shallow relief with a dense ground of stylized bird motifs Chinese Bronzes, Their Importance in Chinese Culture, Their Shapes,
and coiled cells, the spreading corner supports similarly cast and with Functions and Motifs, Paris, 2015, pp. 36-37, from the Meiyintang
a cut-out section in the apron, thickly-cast on both sections of the fu Collection, and the same author, Chinese Bronzes, Fribourg,
with a pair of mythical animal-head handles, the cover alone, cast with Switzerland, 1980, p. 227, no. 78 from the Art Institute of Chicago.
four evenly-spaced small animal-mask tabs around the rim, under a
polished dark patina. The term fu 簠 was employed very early on in classical texts to refer
13 1/2in (34.3 cm) across the handles to a vessel used to hold offerings of millet during rituals. This oblong
vessel of rectangular form with upwardly sloping sides in its lower
section, is supported by a flared foot and topped by a cover of the
$5,000 - 8,000 same shape, which may also serve as a mirror-vessel when up-turned.
宋/明 銅簠 The fu 簠 appears during the end of the Western Zhou 西周 period, or,
more precisely, at the end of the 9th century B.C. and becomes very
popular during the subsequent Spring and Autumn 春秋 period.
Provenance
Nicholas S. Pitcher, London, 2008

來源
Nicholas S. Pitcher, 倫敦, 2008年

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