Lot Essay
The gui were used as containers for cereal offering during ritual banquets commemorating the ancestors. Similar examples are illustrated in B. Karlgren, J. Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes, The Natanael Wessen Collection, Stockholm 1969, pp.48-49, pl.8 and in H. Brinker, Bronzen aus dem alten China, Zurich 1975, p.44, pl.11.