A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-1
A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-2
A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-3
A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-4
A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-1A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-2A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-3A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC - image-4

Lot 330 Dα

A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
07.12.2019, 11:00 - Tibet/Nepal, China
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 210.800 € (incl. premium)
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A bronze food vessel of gui type. Early Zhou dynasty, 12th/10th century BC

On a slightly splayed foot and with animal-shaped handles with flanges. The body decorated in relief with two bands filled with highly stylised dragons and two tiger heads. To the inside a long inscription in four rows. Thick and spotty dark green patina.
Height 15.1 cm; width 29 cm

The inscription was sent to the Institute of Archaeology Academia Sinica in Peking in July 1973. There are two translation, one in German the other in English, accompaning the bronze ding.

西周早期 青銅簋
來源：德國漢堡 Dr. Ernst Hauswedell 拍賣，1957年12月9，編號4，圖版 II
及 1970年5月23日，編號 1，圖 2
德國科隆 Gottfried Hertel（1925-2019）私人收藏
可比：Jessica Rawson（著）， Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections，卷 IIB, 華盛頓 1990年，第380-395頁，圖42

Provenance

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 9.12.1957, lot 4, plate II
Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 23.5.1970, lot 1, plate 2
Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne

Literature

Compare an identical bronze in: Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Bd. IIB, Washington, DC/Cambridge Mass. 1990, p. 380-395, mainly no. 42