The foot and neck of the delicately shaped vessel decorated with bands of stylised animal figures on a ‘leiwen’ ground, the central section of the compressed globular body cast with vertical ribs, flanked by a pair of loop handles with animal masks.
A miniature archaistic bronze vessel ‘gui’(Qing dynasty, 18th century)
Description
Dimensions: 9.8cm wide
Provenance:
Martindale Chinese Art – Summer Exhibition 2016
A private English collection
The foot and neck of the delicately shaped vessel decorated with bands of stylised animal figures on a ‘leiwen’ ground, the central section of the compressed globular body cast with vertical ribs, flanked by a pair of loop handles with animal masks.
The vertical ribbed design on this bronze vessel is based on ritual food vessels dating to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Compare a larger ‘Gui’, dated to the Early Western Zhou Dynasty from the Michael Michaels Collection of Early Chinese Art, Christie’s London, 7 November 2017, lot 176. Compare an archaistic bronze vessel of similar size sold at Bonhams New York, 12 September 2016, lot 8011.
