AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL,GUILate Shang DynastyThe rounded sides finely cast with a wide register of regularly spaced pronounced bosses against a diamond trellis ground enclosing a linear motif, all beneath a narrow band of archaic scrolls centred on a pair of animal masks, and above a frieze oftaotie masks divided by flanges, the loop handles surmounted by horned beast-heads, all raised on a high, stepped base, the interior with a pictogram, box.23cm (9in) diam.,15.5cm (6 1/4in) high, 2.35kg (2).For further information on this lot please visit theProvenance: 商晚期 銅乳釘紋史簋Provenance: A Japanese private collection Sotheby's New York, 15 September 2010, lot 273An Asian private collectionPublished and Illustrated: Hayashi Minao, In shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes), Tokyo, 1984, vol. 1, 142, , Shang Zhou qingtong qi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng sanpian pendium of important inscriptions and images of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties III), Shanghai, 2017, vol.1, p.440, no.372.來源：日本私人舊藏紐約蘇富比，2010年9月15日，拍品編號273亞洲私人收藏出版及著錄：林巳奈夫著，《殷周時代青銅器之研究: 殷周青 銅器綜覽(圖版)》, 東京，頁142, 小型盂53 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成三編》，上海，2017年，卷1，頁440，編號372銘文：史Inscription: ShiThe present lot is cast with the Shi clan/family emblem. The Shi clan was an important family in the Shang dynasty. Most of the bronze wares of the Shi clan were unearthed in Tengzhou, Shandong province, but were also scattered across Henan and Shaanxi provinces. Their prominence spanned from the late Shang dynasty to the early Western Zhou dynasty. According to the inscription on the Xuehou ding vessel, recorded in the Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng, scholars have verified that the Shi clan and Xue clan were branches of the same clan. The Xue clan continued after the fall of the Shang dynasty well into the Western Zhou period, but their bronze inscriptions used the Shi mark. Their main fief was located in present day Tengzhou, Shandong province, so a large number of bronzes wares with the Shi emblem were unearthed there. For related discussions, see He Jingcheng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi zu shi mingwen yanjiu, Jinan, 2009, pp.149-155.Many archaic vessels with bosses and diamond-patterns don't have handles. See for example a related bronze vessel with similar pattern but without handles, late Shang dynasty, excavated from Henan, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu qingtongqi quanji, Beijing, 2018, no.103. For another similar archaic bronze gui, late Shang dynasty, in the Shanghai Museum, see Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji, Beijing, 1998, no.36.Two related archaic bronze gui, late Shang dynasty/ Western Zhou dynasty, were sold at Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2011, lots 22 and 35.簋薄唇外翻，頸部飾一周變形夔龍紋，前後正中飾浮雕獸首，器腹滿飾菱形格，格內雷紋填地，每格內鑄一尖角乳釘，簋身兩側鑄半環形獸耳，內餘范土，腹部斜收於圈足，足壁正中起四扉棱，兩棱之間飾變形夔龍紋，內底鑄銘文「史」。史族為商代大族&#... For further information on this lot please visit the