WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

A very similar, but smaller (16.8 cm.), zun is illustrated by Ming S. Wilson in "Archaic Chinese Bronzes in the Victoria & Albert Museum," Chinese Bronzes, Selected Articles from Orientations 1983-2000, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 192, fig. 9, where it is dated Western Zhou dynasty, 10th-9th century BC.