RARE BOL COUVERT RITUEL EN BRONZE, GUI

CHINE, DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE DES ZHOU OCCIDENTAUX, XIEME-XEME SIECLE AV.JC.

Details

RARE BOL COUVERT RITUEL EN BRONZE, GUI
CHINE, DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE DES ZHOU OCCIDENTAUX, XIEME-XEME SIECLE AV.JC.
Raised on a flared pedestal foot, the globular body is surmounted by a pair of C-scroll handles issuing from a bovine mask and terminating in a hooked pendent tab. The neck is cast in low relief with a band of taotie masks separated by a mythical animal's head, and a similar band is repeated on the doomed cover and the foot. The interior of the vessel and the cover are cast with a three-character archaic inscription reading: zuo zun yi (‘made this precious vessel'), and the base is incised with archaic patterns; small restoration.

7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Property of a French private collection, acquired prior to 1989, and thence by descent.

Further details

A RARE BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, GUI
CHINA, EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

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Lot Essay

A gui with similar decoration on the shoulder and foot, is illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp. 254-255, pl. 42. Also compare to a very similar bronze gui and cover, dated early Western Zhou dynasty, sold in Christie's New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1520.

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