Lot 1008
1008
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC

Details
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The body is cast in rounded relief on a plain ground with a wide 'diamond-and-boss' band below a bow-string border and a band centered on each side by an animal mask cast in high relief flanked by three dragons with backward-turned heads alternating with two whorl bosses, all between further bow-string borders and interrupted by the pair of C-shaped handles that issue from an animal head and are cast at the bottom with a hooked pendant. The whole is raised on a foot encircled by a band centered on each side by a simplified mask flanked by two pairs of serpents that are separated by a narrow flange below each handle. The surface has a mottled dark grey and milky olive-green patina.
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Eskenazi, London, 1984.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

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Lot Essay

Two other gui of this design have been published, one from the collection of Madame Wannieck, Paris, illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, pl. 20, no. 214; and the other by B. Karlgren, 'New Studies on Chinese Bronzes', B.M.F.E.A., No. 9, Stockholm, 1937, pl. XL, no. 381.
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