AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, ZHI

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1997 SECOND SESSION, SALE #8608 AT 10:00 A.M. PRECISELY (LOTS 287-434) EARLY BRONZES PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN COLLECTION

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, ZHI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

The pear-shaped body of oval section, cast in low relief at the base of the neck with a narrow scroll band, and raised on a pedestal foot encircled by a double bow-string band, the mottled, silvery gray patina with pale green encrustation and the interior of the base with lapis blue encrustation
5 1/8in. (13cm.) high

Exhibited

Lot Essay

For similar zhi see Dr. Minao Hayashi, In Shu Jidai Seidouki no Kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes), vol. 1, Japan, 1984, p. 49 (part II), for a page of Western Zhou zhi, illustrating two similar to the present example. Another of more slender shape was sold in these rooms June 4, 1992, lot 183