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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 商初 二里頭文化 青銅爵
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL
(JUE), EARLY SHANG DYNASTY, ERLITOU 來源：
CULTURE 1995年得於香港
Length 11 in., 28 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong in 1995.
Jue vessels of this earliest type from the Erlitou period, which
is often identified with the Xia dynasty, are extremely rare.
This is a particularly fine example of this slender and elegant
form. See a very similar jue, excavated at the Erlitou-type
site, Yanshi, Henan province and now in the Henan Provincial
Museum of the Shang City at Yanshi, illustrated in Zhongguo
qingtongqi quanji, vol. 1, Beijing, 1996, pl. 7. See also another
Erlitou jue of closely related form sold in these rooms, 31st
March-1st April 2005, lot 146.
⊖ $ 60,000-80,000

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