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拍品專文
Yu were popular during the Anyang phase of the Shang dynasty, but disappeared in the early Western Zhou, to be replaced by the handled gui.
Compare the yu of similar proportions, but of slightly larger size (25 cm. diam.) and with different cast designs below the rim and around the foot, illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp. 178-9, pl. 5, where it is dated late Shang dynasty.
Compare the yu of similar proportions, but of slightly larger size (25 cm. diam.) and with different cast designs below the rim and around the foot, illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp. 178-9, pl. 5, where it is dated late Shang dynasty.