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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE A bronze jue, 12th-11th century BC, of similar form and decoration is
Shang Dynasty illustrated by R.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
The vessel with a deep U-shaped body rising from three splayed Collection, Washington D.C., 1987, p.195, pl.18 and p.251, fig.36.2. A
triangular blade legs to a pointed rim opposite a guttered spout flanked related bronze jue, Shang dynasty, was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms,
by a pair of posts capped with conical ‘fire-whorl’ medallions, the 26 May 2014, lot 193.
exterior boldly cast with two taotie masks with bulging eyes separated
by flanges, one side set with a loop handle issuing from a bovine mask.
19.8cm (7 6/8in) high

£15,000 - 20,000
CNY130,000 - 180,000

商 青銅饕餮紋爵

Provenance: a Dutch private collection
A European private collection

來源： 荷蘭私人舊藏
歐洲私人收藏

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