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拍品专文
A very similar graph depicting a decapitation can be seen on a gu of smaller size (27.3 cm.) and with less elaborate decoration sold at Sotheby's London, 25 March 1975, lot 146. A gu of similar proportions, size and decoration, but cast with kui dragons, rather than elephant-trunked dragons, in the band above the spreading foot, is illustrated in A Catalogue of Shang Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions, Ancient Chinese Script From the 1st Millennium B.C., National Palace Museum, Taipei, pp. 56-57, no. 8, and bears a simplified version of this graph, with just one figure surmounted by an axe. The authors suggest the graph may be the origin of the character Liu, a conventional surname.
A gu of slightly smaller size (29.2 cm.), but of similar proportions and with similar cast decoration, including the band of unusual elephant-trunked dragons above the spreading foot, was sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1501.
A gu of slightly smaller size (29.2 cm.), but of similar proportions and with similar cast decoration, including the band of unusual elephant-trunked dragons above the spreading foot, was sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1501.