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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZHI
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZHI
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZHI

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH -10TH CENTURY BC

Details

The interior of the foot is cast in relief with a graph, ge.
7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) high
Provenance

John Sparks Ltd., London (according to label).
Far East Gallery (Albert Y. P. Lee), Toronto, 1970s, by repute.
Leonard J. Star Collection, thence by descent to the present owner.


Lot Essay

Minao Hayashi, in In Shu Jidai Seidoki no Kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou bronzes), vol. 1, Tokyo, 1984, pp. 347-8, illustrates several zhi with similar slender, elegant profiles, including nos. 114, 115 (Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco), 117 (Museum Reitberg), 118-23, and pp. 350-51, nos. 146-49. Like the current zhi, no. 148, which has a plain, undecorated surface, is also cast in relief with the graph, ge. See, also, the Western Zhou zhi of similar form, but decorated with a narrow band of birds and cast inside the vessel with the character zi (son), from the Bella and P. P. Chi Collection, sold at Sotheby’s London, 7 June 2000, lot 9.
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZHI

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