AN ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

The slightly bulbous sides cast with vertical ribbing between a band of dragons alternating with whorl bosses just below the everted rim, and a band of dragons at the splayed foot, the upper band centered on each side with a small taotie mask cast in relief, the pair of loop handles issuing from dragon's masks and terminating in a vertical tab, with a pictogram on the interior, the smooth patina of mottled green and brown tones, restoration--10½in. (26.7cm.) across handles

拍品專文

Although a number of vessels of this type with ribbed body have a similar band of whorl, star and dragon motifs in relief below the rim, this motif is usually repeated on the foot. A gui with this same band below the rim, but with a band of dragons encircling the foot, as in the present example, is illustrated by Michel Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries, 1966, no. 14, and a very similar dragon band can be found on the foot of the gui in the Natanael Wessen Collection, Karlgren and Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes, 1969, no. 5