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PROVENANCE
– Deydier Ch. / Oriental Bronzes Ltd, London, UK. – A quite similar jue but with small legs, now in the Shanghai
– Meiyintang Collection, Zurich, Switzerland. Museum, is illustrated by Chen Peifen: Xia Shang Zhou qingtongqi
– Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris, France. yanjiu, Shanghai (no date), vol. 1, p. 6-7.
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 2006. – Others jue are published by Deydier Ch., China’s Earliest’s Bronze
Vessels, The Erlitou Culture of the Xia Dynasty, Paris 2018, p. 23,
PUBLISHED 24, 38, 44.

– Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, London NOTE
2009, cat. no. 3.
– Deydier Ch., China’s Earliest’s Bronze Vessels, The Erlitou Culture – The jue is commonly described as a “wine-drinking vessel”, but in
of the Xia Dynasty, Paris 2018, p. 37 and 41. reality, it was used specifically for heating wine.
– The origin of the jue is still enigmatic. Pottery jue have been found
SIMILAR EXAMPLES in the second phase of the Erlitou culture and in the Lower Xiajiadian
Culture (circa 2300 – 1600 B. C.) in Inner Mongolia.
– A very similar jue, is illustrated in Bagley R.W., Shang Ritual
Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C.
1987, fig. 13, p. 14.
– Another jue is published in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji – 1 – Xia
Shang, Beijing 1996, p. 3, no. 3.
– Similar examples found in tombs dating to the third phase at the
Erlitou site, are illustrated in Yinxu de faxian yu yanjiu 1999, p. 251-2.

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