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Lot Essay
Acquired by the present owner in April 1962.
A you of this pattern with raised bands on the foot in the Detroit Institute of Arts, is illustrated by Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa, part I, vol. I, pl. 81; and another is included by von Erdberg, Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter, no. 51. A you with plain foot is illustrated by J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. II B, p. 676, fig. 114.4.
A similar example, known as the Wei you, is illustrated by J. Rawson, 'An Unusual Bronze You in the British Museum, Chinese Bronzes - Selected articles from Orientations 1983-2000, Hong Kong, p. 9, (fig. 2), where the author mentioned that this distinctive style was typical of the early Western Zhou period, ibid.
A you of this pattern with raised bands on the foot in the Detroit Institute of Arts, is illustrated by Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa, part I, vol. I, pl. 81; and another is included by von Erdberg, Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter, no. 51. A you with plain foot is illustrated by J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. II B, p. 676, fig. 114.4.
A similar example, known as the Wei you, is illustrated by J. Rawson, 'An Unusual Bronze You in the British Museum, Chinese Bronzes - Selected articles from Orientations 1983-2000, Hong Kong, p. 9, (fig. 2), where the author mentioned that this distinctive style was typical of the early Western Zhou period, ibid.