An archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui), Late Shang dynasty | 商末青銅乳丁獸面紋簋

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An archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui)

Late Shang dynasty

商末青銅乳丁獸面紋簋

supported on a tall splayed foot, the wide U-shaped body rising to an everted rim, the central body boldly cast with a wide band of studded bosses arranged in lozenge panels composed of elongated leiwen, surmounted by a narrow band of kuilong with bulging eyes against a leiwen ground, evenly divided by three mythical beast masks cast in high relief, the foot encircled by three taotie masks formed from raised bosses and prominent flanges amidst a leiwen ground

Diameter 10 in., 25.5 cm

Collection of Nakamura Junsaku (1875-1953).

Sotheby's Olympia, London, 19th February 2003, lot 327.

來源

中村准策 (1875-1953) 收藏

奧林匹亞蘇富比，倫敦，2003年2月19日，編號327

See four closely related examples, one formerly in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, sold in Christie's New York, 1st December 1994, lot 124; one formerly in the Mount Trust Collection, sold in Christie's New York, 15th September 2010, lot 826; one sold in these rooms, 22nd March 2011, lot 14; and the fourth formerly in the Masaki Art Museum, also sold in these rooms, 11th September 2012, lot 95.

An archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 青銅乳丁獸面紋簋

An archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui), Late Shang dynasty | 商末青銅乳丁獸面紋簋