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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
1105
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU PROVENANCE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC Christie’s London, 17 June 1982, lot 10.
Topper Gallery, Markham, Ontario, 2000.
The gu is crisply cast in relief on the trumpet-shaped neck with four
leiwen-flled blades above a band of four cusped quatrefoils with raised LITERATURE
centers, and on both the center section and fared foot with two masks Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies
divided and separated by notched fanges, those on the foot below a narrow of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American,
band of four dragons, all reserved on leiwen grounds. The interior of the foot And Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 1397 (inscription only).
is cast with two clan signs, one of which reads diao. The surface has a The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
greenish patina with malachite encrustation overall. Yinzhou jinwen jicheng (Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions),
12Ω in. (31.8 cm.) high Beijing, 1984, no. 7051 (inscription only).
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, in A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions
from Sotheby’s and Christie’s, Shanghai, 2007, no. 223.
$50,000-70,000
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