HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung: Part 1 | Day
HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung: Part 1 | Day
An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, gu, Shang dynasty | 商 興觚
Auction Closed
October 9, 07:30 AM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, gu,
Shang dynasty
商 興觚
of slender waisted form supported on a tall footring, cast around the mid-section and splayed foot with pairs of zoomorphic masks centred by notched flanges against a leiwen ground, the registers divided by double bowstrings with two cruciform motifs, all below a tall trumpet neck decorated with a band of angular serpents and four blades enclosing leiwen pattern, cast to the inside of the base with a single character reading xing
h. 29.7 cm
Collection of Rafi Y. Mottahedeh (1901-78), New York.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2nd August 1991.
Rafi Y. Mottahedeh（1901-78年）收藏，紐約
藍理捷，紐約，1991年8月2日
See a related gu, also bearing the xing inscription and attributed to the early Western Zhou dynasty, published in Wu Zhenfeng, ShangZhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 18, Shanghai, 2012, no. 08968.
可參考一相關西周早期興觚，收錄於吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷18，上海，2012年，編號08968。