LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, GU
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The rounded mid-section is cast with two taotie masks comprised of large leiwen centered on plain narrow flanges, and is set between bowstring bands encircling the bottom of the plain trumpet-shaped neck and the top of the plain spreading foot. An inscription is cast in relief inside the foot. The patina is a mottled green and brown color.
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high

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Michael Krassner, Hauppauge, New York, c. 1988-89.

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A larger (23.7 cm.) gu with similar cast decoration around the midsection, but cast with additional taotie on the spreading foot, is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, p. 258, no. 40, where it is dated 13th-12th century BC.

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