西周 青銅簋12 ? in. (31.8 cm.) wide, across the handles
巴黎古董商盧芹齋(1880-1957)(傳) 歐洲重要私人珍藏,於1998年前所購
Compare the current vessel to a gui of very similar form in the Sackler Collection, dated to the late Western Zhou period, supported on tripod feet and with comparable horizontal grooves characteristic of the late Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1990, p. 446, no. 57. The Sackler example is decorated with three single bands of scale patterns to the mouth rim and foot of the vessel, and to the rim of the cover, whereas the present gui is cast with a double band of scale patterns to the rim and an attractive lappet band to the foot.