LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

It is rare to find a bronze zun of such pleasing proportions and with design bands both on the body and the foot; a similar piece found in 1954 from the excavation of a Shang dynasty tomb in Huixian, Henan, now in the Xinxiang Museum, is illustrated in Henan Research Institute of Cultural Relics ed., Henan chu tu Shang Zhou qing tong qi (The Unearthed Bronzes of Shang-Zhou Dynasty in Henan Province), 1981, vol.1, p.100, no.119; Another related zun lacking the design band round the foot was included in the National Palace Museum, Special Exhibition of Shang and Chou Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessels, Taipei, 1989, Catalogue, no. 3.