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Catalogue Note
A group of late Shang dynasty inscribed bronze jue of a very similar design have been sold at auction; see, for example, two sold at
Christie's New York, one from the C. Philip Cardeiro Collection, 18th-19th September 2014, lot 988, and the other, 15th September
2011, lot 1110; and another, first sold in our Amsterdam rooms, 13th May 1998, lot 453, and later sold at Christie's New York, 13th-
14th September 2012, lot 1224. Compare also three similar bronze jue all sold in these rooms, but with slightly less elaborate taotie
designs, the first on 17th March 2015, lot 151, the second from the J.T. Tai Collection on 22nd March 2011, lot 18, and the third on
15th September 2010, lot 279. A bronze jue inscribed with the same feng (harvest) character, excavated from Anyang, Henan
province, now in the Anyang Museum, is published in Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 14, Shanghai, 2012, no. 06435,
together with another, inscribed with a shi (arrow) character in an upright orientation, also discovered in Anyang, now in the
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, no. 06614.

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