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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
Early Western Zhou dynastyThe bombé-form body cast in low relief with a band of paired stylized dragons, interrupted by opposing small raised animal masks and loop handles surmounted by dragon heads, set between the gently flared mouth and a splayed foot ring cast with a band of similar confronted dragons meeting to form four taotie masks, the central mask on each side bisected by a raised flange, the surfaces with a mottled pale greenish-gray patina and ferrous, azurite and malachite encrustation. 12in (30.5 cm) across handles
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西周初 青銅夔龍紋簋Provenance:Christie's New York, 19 September 2006, lot 149來源:紐約佳士得,2006年9月19日,拍品編號149Bronze gui were made intermittently from the Erligang period onward. During the Shang period there was a preference for vessels without handles known as yu, but during the Western Zhou period gui were produced in large numbers; see Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. I B, Cambridge, 1990, p. 347.Compare a related but smaller Shang dynasty bronze gui, illustrated in op. cit., p. 481, fig. 64.4; and another late Shang-early Western Zhou dynasty example which was sold in our London Rooms, 14 May 2015, lot 4.