An archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui), Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周初 青銅獸面直棱紋簋
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A bronze ritual food vessel (Gui)
Early Western Zhou dynasty
西周初 青銅獸面直棱紋簋
Width across handles 9¼ in., 23.8 cm
Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997).
Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. E.6.5.
吳權博士 (1910-1997) 收藏
吳蓮伯博物院，編號E.6.5
Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl. 8.
柯玫瑰等，《Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museu♎m》，香港，2011年，圖版8
The cast vertical bands of decoration seen on the present gui belong to a distinctive type of late Shang and Western Zhou designs, classified by Jessica Rawson as 'quilled triple band', see Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Washington D.C., 1990, pp 381-2.
Compare a similar ribbed gui in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated in Yutaka Mino and James Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1993, pl. 31, where the author notes that mold fragments containing ribbed design segments similar to the present example have been discovered in the vicinity of Luoyang, see ibid., p. 112. Another example in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Art in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 22.
Compare a similar ribbed gui in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated in Yutaka Mino and James Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1993, pl. 31, where the author notes that mold fragments containing ribbed design segments similar to the present example have been discovered in the vicinity of Luoyang, see ibid., p. 112. Another example in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Art in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 22.
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