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A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
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A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is cast with a band of vertical narrow ribs between bands of birds reserved on leiwen around the neck and foot, below a similar band cast on the sides of the cover. The interior of the vessel is cast with a single graph, qi.
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Sadazo Ota Collection, Kyoto, in Japan prior to 1959.
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.
Literature
Sueji Umehara, Nihon shucho shina kodo seika (Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Japan), vol. 1, Osaka, 1959, no. 69.

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Lot Essay

The graph cast on the interior of the vessel, qi (possibly a clan sign) can be found on other late Shang and early Western Zhou bronze vessels, such as a bronze jue and a bronze gu excavated from Xiaqiyuan village, Ci county, Hebei province in 1966, illustrated in Wenwu 1974, vol. 11, pp. 93-94, figs. 12 and 25; and a bronze zun in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, no. B60B1022.

A very similar you, and possibly the current you, is illustrated by Minao Hayashi in In Shu Jidai Seidoki no Kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou bronzes), Tokyo, 1986, vol. I, p. 262, no. 61.

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