.jpg?w=1)
拍品專文
The three-character inscription cast inside the foot reads, Zi [] ce, which may be literally translated, "Son [] to appoint."
Gu were one of the most important vessels used in Shang ritual practices, attested to by the inclusion of fifty-three in the tomb of Fu Hao. A similar gu of comparable size (31.5 cm. high) in the van der Mandele Collection is illustrated by H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art, New York/Amsterdam, 1948, pl. 5, no. 6; and another (30.5 cm. high) is illustrated by B. Karlgren and J. Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessen Collection, Stockholm, 1969, no. 15.
Gu were one of the most important vessels used in Shang ritual practices, attested to by the inclusion of fifty-three in the tomb of Fu Hao. A similar gu of comparable size (31.5 cm. high) in the van der Mandele Collection is illustrated by H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art, New York/Amsterdam, 1948, pl. 5, no. 6; and another (30.5 cm. high) is illustrated by B. Karlgren and J. Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessen Collection, Stockholm, 1969, no. 15.