A rare archaic bronze ritual food bessel (Gui)

Late Shang dynasty

商末 戈簋

well cast with the deep rounded sides rising from a splayed foot to a flared rim, flanked by a pair of upturned U-shaped handles, the exterior finely decorated under the rim with a band of formalized kuilong alternating with whorled medallions, the foot further encircled by a band of three taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground, the interior cast with a single-character inscription reading ge, the surface with malachite encrustation

銘文：

戈

Width 14 ? in., 37.5 cm

Private Collection.

Sotheby's London, 16th May 1967, lot 38.

J.T. Tai, New York.

Collection of Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987).

Collection of Else Sackler (1913-2000).

Collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.

Christie's New York, 14th September 2017, lot 904.

來源

私人收藏

倫敦蘇富比1967年5月16日，編號38

戴潤齋，紐約

亞瑟?M?賽克勒 (1913-1987) 收藏

艾爾斯?賽克勒 (1913-2000) 收藏

亞瑟?M?賽克勒基金會收藏

紐約佳士得2017年9月14日，編號904