WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC

Two very similar gui, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, Taipei, 1985, pp. 280-3, pls. 54-5, where they are dated middle Western Zhou dynasty. Other gui of similar proportions and with similar blunt-horned animal heads decorating the handles, but with different bands of decoration below the rim, are illustrated by J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, DC and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, vol. IIB, pp. 380-9, nos. 42-4.