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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
D 1
A BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JIA
SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY B.C.
The vessel is cast with a globular body with a slightly faring rim supporting
two upright posts with tapering caps. The c-shaped handle is cast with a
mythical beast head and the vessel stands on three blade-form feet. The body
is decorated with evenly-spaced fanges dividing two registers of taotie masks
with raised eyes, below a band of stif leaves at the neck.
9æ in. (24.7 cm.) high
£20,000-30,000 $27,000-39,000
€23,000-33,000
PROVENANCE
A private European collection amassed prior to 1998

Compare a jia wine vessel with almost identical decoration and similar size
in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, accession no. S1987.60 and
published in Robert W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections: Volume 1 of Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections. vol. 1, Washington and Cambridge, MA, 1987. cat. 5, pp. 158-159.
商十三世紀 青銅饕餮紋斝

來源:
歐洲私人珍藏，於1998年前入藏

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