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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE BEAKER, GU AN EARLY ARCHAIC BRONZE LIBATION CUP, JUE
Shang Dynasty Early Shang Dynasty
With a tall trumpet mouth rising from a splayed foot, the midsection The cylindrical body rising to a flared pointy end opposite to a pair
finely cast with geometric patterns and a pair of raised bosses to form of mushroom-shaped posts and a long spout, cast with a band of
a taotie mask on either side all between raised bowstrings, the foot taotie pattern around the waist interrupted by the handle on one side,
cast with similar patterns, a pair of cruciform openings to the lower the base flat, all supported by three slender legs, the bronze heavily
bowstrings, the dark gray metal with encrustations of malachite. oxidized and covered with malachite and earth encrustations.
8 3/4in (22.2cm) high 6 1/8in (15.5cm) high; 5 1/2 (13.2cm) across

$4,000 - 6,000 $4,000 - 6,000
商 青銅觚 商早期 獸面紋青銅爵

Compare the very similar bronze jue excavated in 1955 at
Baijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Henan province, now in the collection of
the Zhengzhou City Museum, illustrated in Compendium of Chinese
Bronze, Vol. 1, Xia and Shang, Dongguan, 1996, pp.64-65, no.65.
Another bronze jue of this type with circular 'ring' decoration at the
waist, in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated
on the museum's website (acc. no. 2003.432).
X-radiography of this lot is available upon request.

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