EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is decorated with two taotie on the sides centred by an animal mask cast in relief, reserved on a leiwen band. There are two further masks by the animal heads above the handles. The patina is of a mottled green and brown tone, with some areas of malachite encrustation.
7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

From a Swiss collector, acquired in France in 1988.

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Lot Essay

Compare the present lot to a similar gui, also dated to the early Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp. 254-5, pl. 42.

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