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Property from a distinguished European Private Collection

A small archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, zhi, Late Shang/early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末/西周初 青銅饕餮紋觶

Auction Closed

November 2, 04:07 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a distinguished European Private Collection

A small archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, zhi

Late Shang/early Western Zhou dynasty

商末/西周初 青銅饕餮紋觶


Height 12 cm, 4¾ in.

Acquired in China during the late 1930s/early 1940s.


於上世紀30年代末/40年代初得自中國

Zhi first appeared in the middle of the Yinxu period, and became an important ritual receptacle by the early Western Zhou dynasty, and often used together with jue and gu as a regular wine vessel set. Compare a similar wine vessel, together with a cover, in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji [Complete Series on Chinese Bronzes], vol. 9: Shang II, Beijing, 1997, pl. 137; and a larger wine vessel and cover, from the collection of Dr A. F. Philips, sold in these rooms, 30th July 1978, lot 7.
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