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A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL, JIAO
Late Shang Dynasty
The deep ovoid body resting on three splayed blade-like legs, finely
cast in relief on each side with a taotie mask with protruding eyes, curly
fangs, C-shaped horns and clawed forelegs, all on an intricate leiwen
ground, divided on one side by a notched flange, and on the other by
a vertical panel cast with an inscription beneath the loop handle issuing
from a bovine head, the slightly waisted neck rising to two high flaring
points on opposite sides, each cast on the underside with a pair of
dragons with prominent circular eyes forming an inverted taotie mask,
the three legs decorated with graduated concentric D-motifs within a
single outline, a character inscription in the form of a cicada cast under
the handle, the surface with a smooth grayish-green patina.
22cm (8 2/3in) high.

£150,000 - 200,000
CNY1,300,000 - 1,800,000

商晚期 青銅饕餮紋角
「 」象形符號

Provenance:
Wui Po Kok Antique, Hong Kong, December 2014
Gisèle Croës Arts D’Extreme Orient, Brussels, 2015
Jean-Yves Ollivier Collection

Published and Illustrated:
G.Croës, From This Life to Eternity. Asia Week New York, March 2015,
pp.22-25

來源：
香港古董商匯寶閣古美術，2014年12月
布魯塞爾古董商吉賽爾藝廊，2015年
歐宗易先生珍藏

出版及著錄：
吉賽爾著，《From This Life to Eternity. Asia Week New York
（此生至永恆·紐約亞洲藝術周）》，2015年3月，頁22-25

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