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A FINELY CAST BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU

China, late Shang Dynasty (11th century BC). Height 27.5 cm. Ø 15 cm

Starting price:
380 000 CZK / 14 339 EUR
Price realized:
380 000 CZK / 14 339 EUR

Auction:Asian Works of Art 25/11/2015, 15:00

The tall, slender vessel is crisply cast in relief on the trumpet-shaped neck with four blades filled with inverted masks above a narrow band of angular snakes, and on the center section and the spreading foot with taotie masks divided and separated by notched flanges. Provenance: Collection of Czech sinologist Danuska Heroldova-Stovickova.
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