.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
拍品專文
The inscription cast on the interior of the foot consists of the character Yi, a personal name, followed by a second character, possibly reading gui.
A larger (23.7 cm.) gu with similar cast decoration around the mid-section, but cast with additional taotie on the spreading foot, is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, p. 258, no. 40, where it is dated 13th-12th century BC.
A larger (23.7 cm.) gu with similar cast decoration around the mid-section, but cast with additional taotie on the spreading foot, is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, p. 258, no. 40, where it is dated 13th-12th century BC.