Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Property from a New York Private Collection
An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Gu), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 丩毌觚
Auction Closed
September 21, 06:54 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Gu)
Late Shang dynasty
商末 丩毌觚
cast to the interior of the foot with a clan pictogram reading Jiu guan
銘文：
丩毌
Height 11½ in., 29.3 cm
Collection of Mrs. Dagny Carter (d. 1970), acquired in 1931.
Collection of Mrs. G.G. Scranton, acquired between 1932-1939.
American Private Collection.
Dagny Carter 夫人 (1970年逝) 收藏，得於1931年
G.G. Scranton 夫人收藏，購於1932至1939年之間
美國私人收藏
A small group of bronzes from the same clan have been recorded. See for example, another late Shang dynasty bronze gu, inscribed with the same clan pictogram, published in The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng[Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 07030.