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A LARGE BRONZE RITUAL EWER, YI
- LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 8TH CENTURY BC

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A LARGE BRONZE RITUAL EWER, YI
LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 8TH CENTURY BC
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    $12,000 - $18,000

Sale Information

Sale 2405
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
25 March 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

A LARGE BRONZE RITUAL EWER, YI
LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 8TH CENTURY BC
The broad body raised on three legs, cast in intaglio below the rim with a band of scales above a chevron band, with further scales on the sides of the ear-shaped handle that terminates in a horned animal head biting the rim
15 in. (38.1 cm.) long

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Provenance

Acquired in 1966 or earlier.

Literature

Tch'ou To-i, Bronzes Antiques de la Chine Appartenant, C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris and Brussels, 1924, p. 17.
Jung Keng, Yenching Journal of Chinese Studies, Monograph Series No. 17, The Bronzes of Shang and Chou, vol. II, Beijing, China, 1941, pl. 453, no. 860.
R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, New York, 1968.
J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1990, pp. 712-5, no. 120.

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