A very rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Zun)

Early Western Zhou dynasty

西周初 青銅素帶尊

well cast with the bulging central section rising from a splayed foot to a trumpet neck with an everted rim, adorned simply with three raised plain bands encircling the body, inscribed to the interior with an eight-character inscription reading Xi (possibly) Zhong zuo fu yi bao zun yi, the surface with malachite encrustation, Japanese wood boxes (5) 

銘文：

奚 (疑似) 仲作父乙寶尊彝

Height 8 in., 20.2 cm

Christie's Hong Kong, 1st December 2010, lot 3218.

This lot is accompanied by a certification note written by Zoroku Hata III in 1936. The box is inscribed with a note by Uzan Nagao (1864-1942) in the same year.

來源

香港佳士得2010年12月1日，編號3218

附三世藏六丙子年 (1936年) 鑑定書

日本盒蓋內長尾甲同年題識