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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION
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A RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE It is very rare to find a Shang jue decorated with distinctly rendered kui
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC dragons, such as those decorating the main band on the current jue.
Typically, the kui dragons depicted on Shang jue have dissolved features,
The deep, U-shaped body is raised on three blade-like legs and is decorated
which allow them to more readily suggest taotie masks when two are
with two pairs of kui dragons on a leiwen ground, one pair centered on a narrow
shown confronted. Similar bottle-horn kui dragons can be seen on a pair
flange, the other on an inscription, X Fu Xin (X Father Xin), cast beneath the
of larger (21.6 cm.) jue from the tomb of Lady Fu Hao, Anyang, Henan
curved handle surmounted by a buffalo head.
province, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 3 - Shang, Beijing,
8 in. (20.2 cm.) high
1997, nos. 3 and 4.
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
Stephen Junkunc, III (d.1978) Collection.
瓊肯珍藏
晚商 公元前十二至十一世紀 青銅夔龍紋爵
來源:
史蒂芬‧瓊肯三世 (1978年逝) 珍藏。
(reverse) (inscription)
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