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拍品专文
The interior of the foot is cast with a single graph, ju, 'to raise', which may refer to the act of lifting the vessel in a toast, or may refer to the vessel itself.
Compare with a bronze ritual wine vessel of similar proportions, but with decoration on the shoulder and base sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1479. See also two examples of both plain and decorated zhi illustrated by J. Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Massachusetts, 1990, vol. IIB, pp.630-633, nos.101 and 102, the former with similar elegant proportions to those in this lot. Rawson explains that plain and decorated zhi seem to have co-existed from as early as the Shang period.
Compare with a bronze ritual wine vessel of similar proportions, but with decoration on the shoulder and base sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1479. See also two examples of both plain and decorated zhi illustrated by J. Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Massachusetts, 1990, vol. IIB, pp.630-633, nos.101 and 102, the former with similar elegant proportions to those in this lot. Rawson explains that plain and decorated zhi seem to have co-existed from as early as the Shang period.