A BRONZE 'TAPIR'S HEAD' ' PHOENIX' HANGING VESSEL, CI YOU
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU
Inscription: CI ZUO FU XIN BAO ZUN YI, followed with a symbolic character

H 25 cm (9 7/8 in)

Provenance: 1. An old collection of a French collector acquired in 1942, with a copy of the original transaction note 2. Said to be unearthed together with the related censer, ci ding, in Luoyang, Henan, in around 1929

Reference: 1. A similar vessel (76FYM20:7、總0436), zuo lu yi you, was unearthed at M20 Tomb, Yun Tang Village, Fu Feng County, Shaanxi, in 1976, is illustrated in SHAANXI CHU TU SHANG ZHOU QING TONG QI-VOL.3, by Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, 1980, p. 70, no.70; ZHOU YUAN CHU TU QING TONG QI-VOLUME 7, by Cao Wei, SCBSSS, Chengdu, 2005, p. 1474-1478 2. The related vessel, ci ding, and its inscription are illustrated in SHANG ZHOU QING TONG QI MING WEN JI TU XIANG JI CHENG-VOLUME 4: SHI QI. DING, by Wu Zhenfeng, Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, Shanghai, 2012, p. 443; ZHEN SONG TANG JI GU YI WEN BU YI SAN JUAN, by Luo Zhenyu, Shangyu Luoshi Shiyin, 1931, p. 11; HE NAN JI JIN TU ZHI SHENG GAO, by Sun Haibo, Beiping Kaogu Xueshi, 1939, figure no.7; YIN ZHOU JIN WEN JI CHENG SHI WEN-VOLUME 2, by Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK, Hong Kong, 2000, no.2659-7

ESTIMATE: HK$ 280,000 / RMB 246,400