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A MAGNIFICENT AND IMPORTANT BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN
LATE SHANG- EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (12TH-10TH CENTURY BC)
£400,000 – 600,000
Provenance: S. Kawai Collection, Kyoto.
Property of the Late Dr.A. F. Philips (1874-1951).
Sotheby’s, London, 30 March 1978, lot 21.
From an important private European collection.
Literature: Sueji Umehara, Nihon Shucho Shina Kodo Seikwa, Osaka, 1959, vol. II, pl. CXXXV.
Status and Ritual:
Chinese Archaic Bronzes from An Important Private European Collection
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