EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

A gui and cover of similar form with similar decoration on the shoulder and cover, but another band on the foot, is 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, vol. IIB, p. 400, no. 47. The author also illustrates, p. 402, fig. 47.1, two ceramic vessels of this more unusual gui form, with lug handles instead of C-scroll handles, which are from Anyang and date from the Shang period.