EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

Compare the similar early Western Zhou gui sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 616. Another gui with similar decoration, but with different animal heads surmounting the handles, is illustrated by Y. Mino and J. Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, pp. 112-13, pl. 31, where fig. B illustrates another example found in 1973 in Baofengxian, Henan province, and now in the Luoyang Museum.