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An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, jue
Shang Dynasty
The bronze encrusted with an attractive rich verdigris and typically
cast with a cylindrical body raised on three slender legs and ending
with a curved spout and pointed rim embellished with raised knops,
the body finely decorated on each side with a taotie mask divided by
low flanges, the loop handle concealing a pictogram.
20.7cm (8 1/8in) high
£30,000 - 50,000
HK$370,000 - 620,000 CNY290,000 - 490,000
商 青銅饕餮紋爵
Compare a similar bronze jue, 12th-11th century BC, illustrated
by R.W.Bagely, Shang Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M.Sackler
Collections, Washington, D.C., 1987, p.185, pl.18 and see also
p.251, fig.36.2 fo a jue said to be from Anyang. For another example,
Late Shang Dynasty, see Zhongguo qing tong qitu ji, Beijing, 2005,
p.125 (lower image).
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