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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
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2024年12月17日 开拍
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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

Superbly cast, of elegant pear shape, supported on a high splayed foot and rising to a broad flared rim, the body entirely undecorated except for four impressive buffalo heads cast in high relief enclosed within double-bow-string bands, with a third band encircling the foot.

Provenance: Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, United States. Gallery Ilunga, Ghent, Belgium, ca. 2000, acquired from the above. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Sergeant, Ghent, Belgium, acquired from the above, and thence by descent. The foot inscribed with two old inventory numbers, ‘L.C.H105’ and ‘B3FOI’. A copy of a certificate of authenticity from Gallery Ilunga, written and signed by Luc Cannoot and confirming the provenance above, accompanies this lot. Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (1929-2014) was a noted Manhattan-based collector and dealer of Asian paintings, works of art and furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, who had his business and residence in a Manhattan townhouse, which he shared with actress Claudette Colbert. Ellsworth’s clients included America’s major museums and important collectors, among them John D. Rockefeller III, Sir Joseph Hotung, Herbert Irving, and socialite Brooke Astor, after whom a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is named. Ellsworth was a supporter of architectural restoration in Huangshan and an honorary Chinese citizen.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, casting irregularities, small losses, few nicks, fatigue cracks, old repairs. The bronze with a rich, mottled, naturally grown patina with extensive malachite encrustations.

Weight: 1,228 g
Dimensions: Height 17.7 cm

Literature comparison:
Compare a pair of near identical vessels, also dated to the Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated by Richard A. Pegg, A Walk Through the Ages: Chinese Archaic Art from the Sondra Landy Gross Collection, p. 169-171, no. 26. Compare a closely related bronze vessel, dated to the early Western Zhou dynasty, 18 cm high, unearthed in Xiaoliuzhuang, Guicheng, Huang County, Shandong Province in 1969, and presently in the National Museum of China.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2011, lot 1
Price: USD 50,000 or approx. EUR 63,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, Zun, early to mid-Western Zhou dynasty, 11th-10th century BC
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form and decoration with a similar animal head. Note the similar size (16.5 cm).

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拍品估价:2,000 - 4,000 欧元 起拍价格:2,000 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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