Provenance: Acquired by Walter Hochstadter prior to 1997 and gifted to Alice Chu, Mr. Hochstadter's companion in Australia, and thence by descent to the present owner. 

Note: A yu of approximately the same size (18.2 cm. high) and with very similar cast decoration in the Winthrop Collection, Harvard Art Museums, is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, 1987, p. 500, fig. 96.7, along with another similar yu of slightly smaller size (17.8 cm. high) in the Pillsbury Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, fig. 96.8. Also illustrated, pp. 502-3, no. 502, is a yu in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections with similar decoration, but also of slightly smaller size (17.5 cm. high) and with a less rounded, more tapering profile to the bowl.