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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD
WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The body is cast with a band of stylised
taotie masks on a leiwen ground separated by
narrow flanges, one with a pictogram cast
beneath the curved handle surmounted by
a bovine mask, all rising from three blade-
shaped legs.
7º in. (18.5 cm.) high
HK$200,000-300,000
US$26,000-39,000
PROVENANCE
David Hausman, New York, 1988-89
Sold at Christie’s New York, 20 September
2013, lot 1440
The pictogram could possibly read tian
(heaven). The shape of the present jue
represents typical late-Shang form, with a
deep U-shaped spout, long tail and round-
bottomed body. With the progression of time,
the vertical posts became taller, placed further
back from the spout along the rim. Compare
also to a jue of very similar decoration
illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual
Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 194-
95, no. 18.

商晚朝 青銅饕餮紋爵
銘文：或為「天」
來源
David Hausman, 紐約，1988-89 年
紐約佳士得，2013 年 9 月 20 日，拍品
1440 號

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