Lot 1006. A bronze 'tiger' ritual wine vessel, zun, Late Shang dynasty (c. 1500-1050 BC); h. 22.8 cm; 2.75 kg. Lot Sold 127,000 HKD (Estimate 60,000 - 90,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

with 1 X-ray

Provenance: Collection of Sondra Landy Gross.

Exhibited: A walk through the ages: Chinese archaic art from the Sondra Landy Gross collection, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, New York, 2004, cat. no. 21.

Lot 1007. A bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, zhi, Late Shang-early Western Zhou dynasty; h. 20.5 cm. Lot Sold 279,400 HKD (Estimate 150,000 - 250,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

the compressed pear-shaped body of oval section rising from a tall, slightly splayed foot to a flared rim, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of lug handles and decorated with borders of geometric motifs echoed on the foot, all below a frieze of cicadas encircling the rim, the domed cover with a scrollwork border against a leiwen ground, surmounted by a finial cast with taotie masks.

Provenance: The Sze Yuan Tang Collection.
Bonhams Hong Kong, 24th November 2013, lot 571.

Note: Compare an example of similar form also decorated with stylized cicadas in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji, Shang, vol. 2, Beijing, 1997, pl. 133, and another similar zhi vessel illustrated in Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Cambridge, 1987, fig. 49.20.

Lot 1008. A bronze 'mask' ritual wine vessel, hu, Shang dynasty or later; h. 37 cm. Lot Sold 190,500 HKD (Estimate 300,000 - 500,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

with 2 X-rays

Lot 1009. An inscribed bronze ritual wine vessel, jue, Late Shang dynasty; h. 19.3 cm. Lot Sold 69,850 HKD (Estimate 50,000 - 80,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

the side inscribed with two characters reading ba liu (eight six), Japanese wood box 銘文：八六

Lot 1010. A bronze 'mask' ritual wine vessel, hu, Late Shang-early Western Zhou dynasty; h. 25 cm. Lot Sold 60,960 HKD (Estimate 100,000 - 150,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

with 2 X-rays..

Lot 1012. A bronze 'cicada' ritual food vessel, ding, Late Shang dynasty; h. 20.1 cm. Lot Sold 190,500 HKD (Estimate 180,000 - 260,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

with 2 X-rays..

Lot 1013. A bronze ritual food vessel, li, Late Shang dynasty; w. 16.2 cm. Lot Sold 57,150 HKD (Estimate 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

Sotheby's. Ritual and Reality, Hong Kong, 17 April 2024