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A CHINESE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
POSSIBLY LATE SHANG DYNASTY (1600-1046 BC)
the tall trumpet-shaped neck cast with four blades filled with taotie masks and cicada patterns and separated by raised flanges in the middle section and on the spreading foot, also with taotie masks, pictograms are inscribed to the inside of the mouth, on a hollow, splayed foot, overall olive green patina, with later red marking to base, 27.2cm high
Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne, Purchased in the 70s in Hong Kong; thence passed on by descent to the current owner.
Reference: Please refer to a similarly cast Late shang Gu in The Dr. Paul
Singer Collection of Chinese Art of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution; a joint gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Paul Singer, the
AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, and the Children of
Arthur M. Sackler
Catalogue Note: People of the Shang period were known to have greatly
Enjoyed drinking wine. Emperor Zhou Wang of the Shang Dynasty, was
purported to have had a pond filled with wine, so that he could continue his merriment from morning to night. Under such customs bronze wine vessels were quite developed and a very important aspect of Shang ritual
Sold for $3,000
Lot 4
POSSIBLY LATE SHANG DYNASTY (1600-1046 BC)
the tall trumpet-shaped neck cast with four blades filled with taotie masks and cicada patterns and separated by raised flanges in the middle section and on the spreading foot, also with taotie masks, pictograms are inscribed to the inside of the mouth, on a hollow, splayed foot, overall olive green patina, with later red marking to base, 27.2cm high
Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne, Purchased in the 70s in Hong Kong; thence passed on by descent to the current owner.
Reference: Please refer to a similarly cast Late shang Gu in The Dr. Paul
Singer Collection of Chinese Art of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution; a joint gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Paul Singer, the
AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, and the Children of
Arthur M. Sackler
Catalogue Note: People of the Shang period were known to have greatly
Enjoyed drinking wine. Emperor Zhou Wang of the Shang Dynasty, was
purported to have had a pond filled with wine, so that he could continue his merriment from morning to night. Under such customs bronze wine vessels were quite developed and a very important aspect of Shang ritual
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Asian Art, Classic Furniture & Objects
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8080
12:00pm - 25 October 2015
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
VIEWING
21 October 9am-8pm
22-23 October 10am-4pm
24 October 10am-5pm
CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
chiara.curcio@leonardjoel.com.au
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