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拍品專文
The inscription cast in the bottom of the vessel reads Shi Bei zuo Fu Xin, which may be translated as 'Cast by the scribe Bei for Father Xin.'
Compare the similar gui illustrated by J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, pp. 390-1, no. 45; and two other similar examples sold in these rooms, 19 September 2006, lot 148, and 24-25 March 2011, lot 1238.
Compare the similar gui illustrated by J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, pp. 390-1, no. 45; and two other similar examples sold in these rooms, 19 September 2006, lot 148, and 24-25 March 2011, lot 1238.