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拍品專文
In A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, no. 233, Wang Tao and Liu Yu cite the unusual inscription cast in relief inside the foot as reading X (personal name) Lei X (personal name).
Unlike the taotie masks more usually found on the foot, the present gu has four quadrants with the repeated decoration of a downward-facing dragon. Similar decoration can be seen on three bronze gu dated to the 13th century BC illustrated by Robert W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 216-25, nos. 25-27, with a rubbing on p. 225.
Unlike the taotie masks more usually found on the foot, the present gu has four quadrants with the repeated decoration of a downward-facing dragon. Similar decoration can be seen on three bronze gu dated to the 13th century BC illustrated by Robert W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 216-25, nos. 25-27, with a rubbing on p. 225.