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拍品专文
The rubbing of the current gui’s inscription illustrated in Liu Tizhi’s 1935 publication Xiaojiao jingge jinwen taben (Rubbings of Archaic Bronze Inscriptions at the Xiaojiaojingge Studio), is accompanied by a hand-written note stating the rubbing was produced by an acquaintance of Wu Jiangweng in the binwu year of the Daoguang period, corresponding to 1846, followed by a personal seal probably reading Zhang Kamu.
The cicadas, finely cast in intaglio line under the handles, is an unusual feature of this gui. In her discussion of the current gui in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Cambridge, 1990, pp. 350-1, no. 35, J. Rawson notes, “whereas the form and disposition of the motifs are Shang in origin, the smooth roundness of the relief is a Zhou characteristic.” Similar rounded relief can be seen on the gui illustrated ibid., pp. 352-3, no. 36, and on the De gui in the Winthrop Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, illustrated p. 354, fig. 36.1.
The cicadas, finely cast in intaglio line under the handles, is an unusual feature of this gui. In her discussion of the current gui in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Cambridge, 1990, pp. 350-1, no. 35, J. Rawson notes, “whereas the form and disposition of the motifs are Shang in origin, the smooth roundness of the relief is a Zhou characteristic.” Similar rounded relief can be seen on the gui illustrated ibid., pp. 352-3, no. 36, and on the De gui in the Winthrop Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, illustrated p. 354, fig. 36.1.