SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU*
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Of slender shape with flaring rim, crisply cast on the neck with upright blades above a band of serpents, the central section with two taotie masks and the pedestal foot with further taotie masks below two pairs of confronted dragons, all on leiwen grounds and divided and separated by narrow, notched vertical flanges, with a large pictograph cast on the interior of the foot, with milky pale blue-green patina and some ferrous and dark green encrustation
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

來源

C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 21 May 1942.

出版

Chen Mengjia, Mei diguo zhuyi jielue di woguo Yin Zhou tongqi tulu, The Academia Sinica, Beijing, 1962, no. A468.

注意事項

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

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拍品專文

The graph cast on the interior of the foot consists of a yaxing and a pictograph to form a clan sign. This gu was one of the nine bronzes belonging to Doris Duke that Chen Mengjia examined during his visit to the United States from 1944-1947. The comprehensive survey of 845 Chinese ritual bronzes in American collections that he compiled during those years was published in 1962 by The Academia Sinica, Beijing, under the title, Meidiguo zhuyi jielue di woguo Yin Zhou tongqi tulu, This gu was included as no. A468, and Chen Mengjia listed eight other bronzes with the same clan sign, two of them said to have been unearthed at Anyang.

A most unusual feature of this gu is the repetition of the flanges on the neck. Two other published examples share this feature: one illustrated by J. A. Pope, et al., The Freer Chinese Bronzes, vol. 1, Washington, 1967, pl. 10, no. 10, pp. 68-9; the other illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taiwan, 1998, p. 291, no. 43:2.