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An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, jue
Late Shang dynasty, Erligang culture
Raised on three blade-shaped feet, the exterior cast in relief with a frieze
of two taotie amongst dense archaistic scrolls at the waist, one cast
beneath the handle issuing from the head of a mythical beast, a pair of
conical caps cast with whorl motifs issuing from the rim between the
spout and tip.
22cm high.
HK$100,000 - 150,000
US$13,000 - 19,000
商晚期 獸面紋爵杯
An archaic jue of similar form and decoration is in the collection of the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp.132-133, no.5. See also a
closely related example in the Arthur M. Sackler collection, illustrated by
Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection,
Washington, 1987, pp.198-199, no.20. Compare an excavated
example unearthed at Henan province in 1980, illustrated in Zhongguo
Qingtongqi Quanji 4. Shang 4, Beijing, 1998, p.51, no.53.

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