A RARE BRONZE WINE VESSEL, ZUN

LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE BRONZE WINE VESSEL, ZUN
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The body, rising to a wide trumpet neck, cast with a raised central bulb within vertical twin-line borders to and a wider central raised band, the interior of foot rim with a seven-character inscription, the patina of grey and olive-green tone with some blue-green encrustation
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Certified by Zoroku in 1936
The box inscribed by Kimura Uzan in 1936

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Please note that the box is inscribed by Kimura Uzan and not Kimura Ozan as stated in the catalogue.

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Lot Essay

The pictogram, Xizhong zuo bao zunyi may be translated as: 'Xizhong made this precious wine vessel'.

Few plain vessels dating to this period appear to have been published. Compare a zun of similar proportions but with the addition of a handle, also left undecorated with the exception of raised bands around the mid-section and foot illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, gongyi meishu; qing tongqi , Beijing, 1986, vol. 4, p. 177, no. 194.

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