A BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
A BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU

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A BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY - 770 BC

The slightly compressed body resting on a ribbed splayed foot, cast in relief to the shoulder to each face with a bovine head in relief dividing confronted phoenix reserved on a leiwen ground, the cover with upturned ends with a similar phoenix band, the tall arched handle with tapir-head terminals, the interior with the pictograph, Bobao yi, and cover inscribed with Bozuobao yi, the milky green patina with blue encrustation (restored)
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, stand, box

拍品专文

Acquired by the present owner in April 1962.

A you of this pattern with raised bands on the foot in the Detroit Institute of Arts, is illustrated by Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa, part I, vol. I, pl. 81; and another is included by von Erdberg, Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter, no. 51. A you with plain foot is illustrated by J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. II B, p. 676, fig. 114.4.

A similar example, known as the Wei you, is illustrated by J. Rawson, 'An Unusual Bronze You in the British Museum, Chinese Bronzes - Selected articles from Orientations 1983-2000, Hong Kong, p. 9, (fig. 2), where the author mentioned that this distinctive style was typical of the early Western Zhou period, ibid.