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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. MALCOLM E. MCPHERSON
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
The swelling body cast below the everted rim with a band of kui dragons in profile with clawed feet and scrolled tails reserved on a leiwen ground confronted on a small animal mask in relief on two sides, with a band of similar dragons on the tall, flared foot, two of the dragons centered by a narrow flange to form taotie masks, the vessel flanked by a pair of loop handles each surmounted by a bovine mask and terminating in a hooked pendent tab, with mottled pale green patina and some malachite and cuprite encrustation
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) across handles
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
The swelling body cast below the everted rim with a band of kui dragons in profile with clawed feet and scrolled tails reserved on a leiwen ground confronted on a small animal mask in relief on two sides, with a band of similar dragons on the tall, flared foot, two of the dragons centered by a narrow flange to form taotie masks, the vessel flanked by a pair of loop handles each surmounted by a bovine mask and terminating in a hooked pendent tab, with mottled pale green patina and some malachite and cuprite encrustation
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) across handles
Provenance
Oscar Gerson, Berkeley, California, early 1970s.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Hall of Flowers, Treasures of the Orient, Society for Asian Art, 1979, no. 9.