A BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI
A BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI

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A BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH/10TH CENTURY BC

The slightly bulbous sides cast with vertical ribbing between a band containing a bifurcated dragon and a central animal mask in relief on the slightly waisted neck and a similar band on the splayed foot, with a pair of animal mask handles, each terminating with a comma-shaped tail, the patina with iron and matt malachite encrustations
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) across handles, stand, box

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Acquired by the present owner in May 1962.

Another gui of this pattern was included in the Indianapolis Museum of Art Exhibition, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, 1983, p. 31, where fig. B illustrates another example in the Luoyang Museum excavated in Baofeng county, Henan province.