CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE SHANG-DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE ZHOU, XIEME SIECLE

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VASE EN BRONZE, GUI
CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE SHANG-DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE ZHOU, XIEME SIECLE
La panse hémisphérique reposant sur un pied évasé, tous deux rehaussés d'un registre de motifs géométriques incisés formant des masques de taotie, ces derniers répartis de part et d'autre d'arêtes ou de masques d'animaux, les anses en forme de têtes de bovidés avalant un oiseau dont il ne reste que le corps et les griffes ; traces d'oxydation rouge et verte
Largeur: 24,5 cm. (9 5/8 in.)

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Further details

A BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI
CHINA, LATE SHANG DYNASTY/EARLY ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC

Lot Essay

This vessel is representative of a large family of gui that was popular during the late Shang and early Western Zhou periods. The decoration of the present lot is restricted to two bands around the neck and at the foot in contrast to earlier examples with animal-mask decoration covering the whole surface of the vessel. Gui with handles also only became common towards the late Shang.
See a gui with a similar shape and comparable band decoration illustrated in J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Massachussets, 1990, p.405, no.48
Another example with a similar decoration is illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp.200 and 201, pl.16

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