AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN

SOUTHEAST CHINA, SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC)

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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN
SOUTHEAST CHINA, SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC)
Of pear shape with widely spreading mouth, the sides cast in relief with two pairs of S-shaped serpents with heads at each end, reserved on a ground of angular scrolls and set between various scroll and dogtooth borders, some repeated on the pedestal foot, extensive malachite encrustation
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) across

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Acquired in Hong Kong, 1994.

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Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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The unusual decoration and style of casting of this vessel are similar to those of a you of early Eastern Zhou date from Hunan Xiangtan illustrated by J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, p. 42, fig. 31, where the authors discuss the provincial bronze casting industry, and continuation of zun and you vessel shapes in southern China, after they had been eliminated at the capital near Xi'an in the mid-9th century. See, also, the similar zun excavated in 1971 at Gongcheng, Guangxi province, dated to the Spring and Autumn period and illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 11 - Eastern Zhou (5), Beijing 1997, p. 109, no. 116.