Lot Essay
An almost identical vessel but of a smaller size (34.8 cm. high) in the Shanghai Museum, was included in the exhibition Shanghai Hakubutsukan ten, Tokyo, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 6. Both examples share the same sharply angled shoulder, divisional motif, and the unadorned foot and neck with exception of the simple bow-string design.
A similar bronze zun dated to the 11th century B.C., is illustrated by R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Harvard University Press, 1987, p. 281, no. 45.
A similar bronze zun dated to the 11th century B.C., is illustrated by R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Harvard University Press, 1987, p. 281, no. 45.