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[FROM SOTHEBY'S] A ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL SHANG DYNASTY.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD
[FROM SOTHEBY'S] A ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL SHANG DYNASTY.
LONG 31/CM HEIGHT 24/CM [SHANG DYNASTY 1046/BC. [Sotheby's New York, 15 sept. 2010 Lot 273] Provenance: Old Japanese Collection.

Note: Designs incorporating bosses framed by diagonal lines enclosing leiwen appear to have been used mostly on round-bodied vessels from the Anyang period, as a number of examples discovered in the tomb of Fu Hao demonstrates. They appear, however, more commonly on bronze vessels excavated from sites in Shaanxi province as Jessica Rawson notes. See Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Vol. IIB, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 378. Bronze vessels with handles such as this gui, are rarer. Compare an example excavated from Liquan Xian in Shaanxi province, illlutratated ibid.