CHINE, DYNASTIE SHANG (1600-1100 AV. J.-C.)

Details

RÉCIPIENT À VIN EN BRONZE ARCHAÏQUE, GU
CHINE, DYNASTIE SHANG (1600-1100 AV. J.-C.)
L'intérieur du pied porte l'inscription fa.
Hauteur : 26,8 cm. (10 ½ in.)

Provenance

With Great Wall Trading Co., Hong Kong, 25 November 1982.

Further details

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU
CHINA, SHANG DYNASTY (1600-1100 B.C.)

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Lot Essay

A gu of slightly larger size (28.8 cm. high) cast with a closely related inscription is in the Anyang Research Station of the Archaeological Institute, illustrated by Hayashi Minao in In shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou bronzes], vol. 1, Tokyo, 1984, pl. 327, no. gu-128. Another gu, bearing a similar inscription also in the Anyang Research Station of the Archaeological Institute, is illustrated by Yan Yiping in Jinwen Zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, no. 5926.

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