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Friday 23 March 2018
10.00 aM (Lots 901-986)

VARIOUS PROPERTIES
901
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The U-shaped body is raised on three blade-form supports, and decorated on the sides with two taotie
masks reserved on a leiwen ground between borders of scales. One mask is centered by a narrow fange,
the other by an inscription, Fu Ji (Father Ji), beneath a C-scroll handle surmounted by a bovine mask. The
rim rises to a point opposite the D-shaped spout which is fanked by a pair of capped posts decorated with
whorls. The patina is of yellowish-green color.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box, the inner box with an inscription by Hata Zoroku II
(1861-1936)
$30,000-50,000

(inscription)
PROVENANCE
In Japan prior to 1936.
商晚期 青銅父己爵

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