Lot 203. An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, Jue, Late Shang-early Western Zhou dynasty. Height 19 cm, 7½ in. Lot sold: £32,760 (Estimate: £15,000 - 25,000). © 2022 Sotheby's.

cast beneath the handle with a three-character inscription reading Wo Fu Ji.

Property from an English Private Collection.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 14th July 1970, lot 50.

Literature : Liu Yu and Lu Yan (eds.), Jin chu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu [Compilation of Recently Discovered Archaic Bronze Inscriptions], Beijing, 2002, pl. 880.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl. 291.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou Dynasties], vol. 16, Shanghai, 2012, no. 08177. 

Sotheby's. Monochrome, London, 2 November 2022