A pair of archaic bronze ritual wine vessels and covers (Fanghu), Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd., New York, 2001.

Collection of Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt.

Archetypes and Archaism, Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd., New York, 2001, cat. no. 7.

A comparable Warring States period fanghu is preserved in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Chen Peifen, Xia Shang Zhou qingtongqi yanjiu [Study of archaic bronzes from Shang, Shang and Zhou dynasties], Dongzhou [Eastern Zhou] vol. 2, Shanghai, 2004, pl. 623; another from the collection of Sakamoto Gorō, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th May 2025, lot 715.