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9. Ritual bronze wine vessel jia
Shang dynasty, late Erligang period, circa 14 – 13 centuries bc.
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商代二里岡晚期獸面紋青銅斝
Height: 31 cm

Inscription: Published:
▪ One single character cast inside the vessel reads: ▪ Keverne R., Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
“Yuan”《垣》 (a clan name). Ceramics, Winter Exhibition 2002, London 2002, p. 6
– 7, no. 1.
Provenance: ▪ Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang
▪ Roger Keverne, London, U.K. Collection, London 2009, p. 30 – 31, no. 8.
▪ Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou Qingtongqi Mingwen
Exhibited: Ji Tuxiang Jicheng, Shanghai 2012, Vol. 20, p. 4,
▪ Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics, no. 10882. 吳鎮烽《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》上海
Winter Exhibition 2002, Roger Keverne, London 2012年版, 第20冊, 第4頁10882號
2002, catalogue no. 1.
Note:
▪ The morphology of this jia vessel and its decorative
motifs are typical of the transitional period between
the end of the Erligang period and the beginning of the
Yinxu period of the Shang dynasty.

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