Ming dynasty, 15th/17th centuryUnder a black lacquer patination, the sturdy vessel cast with four vertical notched flanges in three bands to the body, neck, and foot, the central section cast in relief with running lions divided by the flanges. 11in (28cm) high,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:明 十五至十七世紀 銅尊The vase-shaped zun 尊 was popular during the Early Western Zhou period and became a generic name for bronze wine vessels. It was written as a pictograph in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, and depicts two hands holding a wine jar. Song scholars began to use the name indiscriminately for a number of different vessels, including gu, zhi, hu, and lei. The zun category covers two distinguishable types: one has an angular shoulder and a trumpet-shaped mouth; the other is in the shape of a tall vase.For another zun-form archaistic bronze vessel dated to the Ming dynasty, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Later Chinese Bronzes From the Collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lot 3360.The same form was also particularly popular in the fifteenth century Imperial cloisonné workshops, see Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné enamels, London, 1960, no. 18.