LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 8TH CENTURY BC

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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, GUI
LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 8TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is raised on a broad pedestal foot and has compressed bulbous sides that curve inward towards the rim, and are flat cast with a wave band above a bow-string band. There are four pierced, loop handles that issue from dragon heads with 'snail' horns. The domed cover is decorated with a wave band below the ring handle which encloses a dragon scroll medallion. The bronze has a mottled greyish-green patina and there is green, azurite and earth encrustation on the interior.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) across handles

来源

Sotheby's New York, 18 September 1996, lot 132.

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Compare the gui of related form, but lacking a cover, and with only two dragon-head handles, illustrated by B. Karlgren and J. Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes, The Natanael Wessén Collection, Stockholm, 1969, pp. 52-3, no. 7, Pl. 10, where it is dated Middle Zhou. While the dragon-head handles on the Wessén gui feature similar spiraling 'snail' horns, the handles are not as elaborate as those of the present vessel.