An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (Zhi), Late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末 / 西周初青銅幾何紋觶

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An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (Zhi)

Late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty

商末 / 西周初青銅幾何紋觶

the compressed pear-shaped body of oval section rising from a tall, slightly splayed foot to a flared rim, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of lug handles and decorated with borders of geometric motifs echoed on the foot, all below a frieze of cicadas encircling the rim, the domed cover with a scrollwork border against a leiwen ground, surmounted by a finial cast with taotie masks (2)

Height 8⅛ in., 20.5 cm

Sze Yuan Tang Collection.

Bonhams Hong Kong, 24th November 2013, lot 571.

來源

思源堂收藏

香港邦瀚斯2013年11月24日，編號571

Compare an example of similar form also decorated with stylized cicadas in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji, Shang, vol. 2, Beijing, 1997, pl. 133, and another similar zhi vessel illustrated in Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Cambridge, 1987, fig. 49.20.

An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (Zhi), Late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末 / 西周初 青銅幾何紋觶

An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (Zhi), Late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末 / 西周初青銅幾何紋觶