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拍品专文
The interior of the foot is cast with a single graph of unknown reading, although it is likely to be a personal name. Two early Western Zhou bronze vessels bearing similar graphs are illustrated by Wang Tao and Liu Yu in A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, nos. 257 and 258, sold by Sotheby's in 1988 and 1981 respectively.
Compare with a gu of similar form and decoration in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in The Freer Chinese Bronzes, Washington, 1967, vol. I, pp. 58-63, no. 8. A gu illustrated by R. Bagley also features similar flanged taotie, leiwen and cicada ornamentation (see R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 240-241, no.33. )
Another example is illustrated in J.J. Lally & Co. Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The Collection of Daniel Shapiro, New York, 2014, pp. 14-15, no. 3.
Compare with a gu of similar form and decoration in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in The Freer Chinese Bronzes, Washington, 1967, vol. I, pp. 58-63, no. 8. A gu illustrated by R. Bagley also features similar flanged taotie, leiwen and cicada ornamentation (see R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 240-241, no.33. )
Another example is illustrated in J.J. Lally & Co. Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The Collection of Daniel Shapiro, New York, 2014, pp. 14-15, no. 3.