An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Zhi), Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周初 青銅弦紋觶

Compare an early Western Zhou dynasty bronze zhi of a related form and design with a cast cicada motif to the underside, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Minao Hayashi, In Shū Jidai seidōki no kenkyū. In Shū seidōki souran [Research of bronze ware of Shang and Zhou dynasty], vol. 1, Tokyo, 1984, zhi, no. 62; another in the Penn Museum, Philadelphia, illustrated in Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtong qi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of important inscriptions and images of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 19, Shanghai, 2012, no. 10541; a third formerly in the collections of Liu E, Wang Chen, and Luo Zhenyu, recorded in The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of bronze inscriptions from Yin and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 1984, no. 06169; one in the collection of the Lüshun Museum, Dalian, published in Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, no. 6608; and a further example from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, now housed in the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., published on the Museum's website (accession no. S2012.9.586).