AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN), LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN)
LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
商末 / 西周初 青銅饕餮紋尊

cast with a short slightly splayed foot supporting a globular body surmounted by a trumpet neck, the sides of the belly cast with three taotie masks, their horns, jaws, and other features abstractly rendered in low-relief hooked curls and the hemispherical eyes emerging in high relief, a narrow band of leiwen and bosses above the angled shoulder interrupted by three raised ram masks aligned with the taotie masks below, the foot and lower neck each cast with two parallel string-relief bands, the green patina mottled with various tones of green and pale blue encrustation

Height 8⅛ in., 20.5 cm

Condition Report:
The vessel has numerous restored breaks and cracks throughout with possible areas of infill. X-ray images are available upon request.

器身曾有斷且有裂，經填修補。請聯絡部門提供X光片。

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Provenance:
Joseph Chan, Hong Kong, 1980.

Hong Kong Private Collection.

來源

Joseph Chan，香港，1980年

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