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04 – archaic bronze wine vessel jue
SHANG DYNASTY, ERLIGANG PERIOD
CIRCA 17 / 16 – 14 CENTURIES B. C.
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H.: 17 CM L.: 16.5 CM
Archaic bronze wine vessel jue supported on three thinly cast trian-
gular legs that gradually extend outwards and become thinner as
they descend to end in pointed blade-like extremities. The vessel’s
flat-bottomed oval-shaped body tightens at its waist as it rises to-
wards its top. One side of the vessel is decorated with two bands of
multiple X-shaped motifs separated by horizontal lines in low relief.
Similar horizontal lines in low relief and a loop handle are found on
the jue’s opposite side.
Two knobs topped by mushroom-like whorl buttons extend from
inside of the jue’s rim just above the area where the vessel’s spout
begins to extend outwards.
The vessel has a nice green patina.

PROVENANCE

– Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris, France, 1997.
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 1997.

SIMILAR EXAMPLE

– The same X-shaped motifs appear on an Erligang period jue now
in the Shanghai Museum, and illustrated by Chen Peifen: Xia
Shang Zhou qingtongqi yanjiu, Shanghai (no date), vol. 1, p. 30-31.

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