CHINE, DYNASTIE DES ZHOU OCCIDENTAUX (1100-771 AV. JC)

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VASE EN BRONZE, GUI
CHINE, DYNASTIE DES ZHOU OCCIDENTAUX (1100-771 AV. JC)
Reposant sur un pied évasé, la panse hémisphérique rehaussée près du col d'une frise ornée d'oiseaux stylisés affrontés de part et d'autre d'un masque zoomorphe en léger relief, les anses émergeant de têtes de félins ; traces d'oxydation verte et brune
Largeur: 30 cm. (11¾ in.)

來源

From a French private collection

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT payable at 19.6% (5.5% for books) will be added to the buyer’s premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

更多詳情

A BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI
CHINA, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (1100-771 BC)

榮譽呈獻

Mathilde Courteault

mcourteault@christies.com +33 (0)1 40 76 86 05

拍品專文

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 566y79 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

These gui vases were used as containers for cereal offerings during ritual banquets commemorating the ancestors
See a gui with a comparable shape and decoration (altought it has also a band around the foot) illustrated in J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Massachussets, 1990, p.405, no.48
Another example with a comparable 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