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An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, gu, Shang dynasty | 商 興觚

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October 9, 07:30 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 HKD

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An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, gu,

Shang dynasty

商 興觚


of slender waisted form supported on a tall footring, cast around the mid-section and splayed foot with pairs of zoomorphic masks centred by notched flanges against a leiwen ground, the registers divided by double bowstrings with two cruciform motifs, all below a tall trumpet neck decorated with a band of angular serpents and four blades enclosing leiwen pattern, cast to the inside of the base with a single character reading xing


h. 29.7 cm

Collection of Rafi Y. Mottahedeh (1901-78), New York.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2nd August 1991.


Rafi Y. Mottahedeh(1901-78年)收藏,紐約

藍理捷,紐約,1991年8月2日

See a related gu, also bearing the xing inscription and attributed to the early Western Zhou dynasty, published in Wu Zhenfeng, ShangZhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 18, Shanghai, 2012, no. 08968.


可參考一相關西周早期興觚,收錄於吳鎮烽,《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》,卷18,上海,2012年,編號08968。