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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD
WINE VESSEL, GENG JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
PROVENANCE
The deep, U-shaped body is raised on three J. T. Tai & Co., New York, 1960.
blade-like legs and is decorated with two taotie Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
masks formed by pairs of dragons, one centered on Else Sackler.
a narrow fange, the other on a pictograph, geng, Elizabeth A. Sackler.
cast beneath the curved handle surmounted by a
EXHIBITED
bufalo head. The interior of one of the two capped
On loan: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of
posts has a later-added inscription. The bronze
Art, 1966.
has a smooth greenish-brown patina.
8º in. (21 cm.) high LITERATURE
N. Barnard and K. Y. Cheung, Rubbings and Hand
$25,000-35,000 Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese,
European, American and Australian Collections,
商晚期 青銅庚爵 Taipei, 1978, no. 553.
R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur
M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp.
204-05, no. 23.
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