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TWO EARLY PAINTED POTTERY VESSELS Provenance: Mayuyama and Co., Tokyo
Neolithic Period, Gansu/Yangshao Culture Kochukyo Ltd., Japan.
The first a large storage jar, the sloping upper body and cylindrical Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 242
neck painted in black and dark red with sweeping spirals, the sides
applied with two loop handles, 26.2cm (10 2/8in) high; the second, a Published and Illustrated: Sueji Umehara, Nihon shucho shina kodo
bowl of compressed globular body and short tapering neck, decorated seika, vol.3, Yamanaka shokai, 1961, no.299 (top).
with geometric patterns, 20.2cm (8in) wide. (2). Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2007, no.1.

£1,000 - 1,500 來源：東京古董商繭山龍泉堂
CNY9,100 - 14,000 東京古董商壺中居
紐約佳士得，2007年3月22日，拍品編號242

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
出版著錄：梅原末治，《日本蒐儲支那古銅精華》，卷三，山中商
會，1961年，編號299（最上）
新石器時代，甘肅/仰韶文化 陶罐 一組兩件 Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2002年，編號71

The pictogram consists of an inverted arrowhead rendered in fine,
428 raised lines.
A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE
Late Shang Dynasty The diamond-and-boss decoration on the present lot is very rare
The vessel with a deep U-shaped body rising from three spreading on jue vessels, and is usually found on gui or yu. See for example,
triangular blade legs to a pointed rim opposite a guttered spout flanked yu vessels with this decoration illustrated by R.Bagley, Shang Ritual
by a pair of posts capped with conical ‘fire-whorl’ medallions, the Bronzes in the Arthur M.Sackler Collections, pp.504-509, nos.98 and
exterior boldly cast with studs evenly spaced within a diamond pattern, 99, where it is noted that ‘yu with diamond-and-boss decoration,
one side set with a loop handle, a pictogram under the handle, probably an invention of Anyang foundries..., enjoyed an extraordinary
Japanese wood box. vogue with predynastic Zhou casters and continued in fashion for a
17cm (6 3/4in) high. (2). short time after the Zhou conquest.’

£12,000 - 15,000 See a similar bronze inscribed jue, late Shang dynasty, which was sold
CNY110,000 - 140,000 at Bonhams London, 5 November 2020, lot 3.

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