The Luboshez guang (Chinese: 觥; pinyin: gōng; Wade–Giles: kung1) is a Chinese ritual bronze wine vessel, dated to the 13th-12th century BC during the Shang dynasty that was auctioned off by Christie's during the annual Asia Week NY auctions of 2021 for a total of $8.6 million.
[1] There are six known similar types, one of which is held at the Harvard Art Museum (as 1942.52.103), two Japanese specimens in addition to a contemporary piece found in the Tomb of Fu Hao in Yinxu, Anyang in 1976.
Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984), a captain of the U.S. Navy, who served as Foreign Liquidation Commission for the Department of State from 1945 to 1949 in Shanghai, acquiring over a hundred bronze and ceramics from the Shang to the Ming dynasty.
[1][5] The bronze was acquired in the leading days to the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, and as such with a 1949 ban on the sale of art to foreigners under the Chinese Communist Party, the piece was among the last to be removed from China.
[5] Luboshez held on to the guang at his residence in Maryland until 1982, when it was sold for $154,000 in a Sotheby's auction to a dealer in London.