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A Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel, Gu, possibly late Shang…
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Melbourne
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25-Oct-2015
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A Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel, Gu, possibly late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC), the tall trumpet-shaped neck cast with four blades filled with taotie masks and cicada patterns and separated by raised flanges in the middle section and on the spreading foot, also with taotie masks, pictograms are inscribed to the inside of the mouth, on a hollow, splayed foot, overall olive green patina, with later red marking to base, 27.2 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne, Purchased in the 70s in Hong Kong, thence passed on by descent to the current owner. Reference: Please refer to a similarly cast late shang Gu in the Dr. Paul, Singer collection of Chinese Art of the Arthur M. Sackler gallery, Smithsonian, Institution, a joint gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Paul Singer, the Ams Foundation for the arts, Sciences, and Humanities, and the children of Arthur M. Sackler. Catalogue note: people of the Shang period were known to have greatly, Enjoyed drinking wine. Emperor Zhou Wang of the Shang Dynasty, was, purported to have had a pond filled with wine, so that he could continue his merriment from morning to night. Under such customs bronze wine vessels were quite developed and a very important aspect of Shang ritual
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