LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

The inscription cast on the interior of the neck reads Shi [] zuo Fu Jia yi (Scribe [] made this vessel for Father Jia).

A gu of larger size (29.4 cm.) dated to the late Shang dynasty, ca. 14th-11th century BC, and cast with very similar decoration on a plain ground is illustrated in A Catalogue of Shang Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1995, p. 104, no. 21.