A FINE BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (GUI) EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH - 10TH CENTURY BC

the deep U-shaped sides flaring slightly at the mouth, cast with a taotie mask with large C-shaped horns and a bovine head in high relief on each side, the vessel flanked by a pair of loop handles each issuing from a bovine mask and terminating in a hooked pendent tab, the slightly flared foot decorated with a frieze of kui dragons, the silvery-gray patina with some malachite encrustation

Collection of Mr. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, New York.
Sotheby's New York, 4th November 1978, lot 308.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, New York.
Collection of Richard J. and Jean D. Salisbury.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, Spirit and Ritual, The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, no. 14.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 1 to 25, 1994, Archaic Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Works of Art, no. 53.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 1 to 25, 1994, Archaic Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Works of Art, no. 53.

It is generally in good condition. Both the exterior and the interior have been cleaned, resulting in a slightly dull surface patina. The clay core of the handles has been removed.
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