Page 94 - Christie's Important Chinese Art, March 23 to 24 2023 New York

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTION
ⱷ1104
A RARE LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JIA A jia of larger size (45 cm. high) with similar profile and bands of decoration
SHANG DYNASTY, EARLY ANYANG PERIOD, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC around the sides dated 13th-12th century BC is illustrated by R.W. Bagley,
Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, DC
The interior is cast with a clan sign.
and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 164-5, no. 7. The author notes that
14q in. (36.9 cm) high, Japanese wood box jia decorated in two registers appeared shortly before the Anyang period (c.
1300-1030 BC).
$80,000-120,000
Another similar jia (35.2 cm. high) is illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in
PROVENANCE: the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, 1998, pp. 152-7, no. 9. Also,
Private collection, Kansai, acquired before 1960. illustrated, p. 156, are two further jia, both excavated in 1968 in Henan
Private collection, Japan, 2005. province, Anyang prefecture, Xiao chuan, the first from Tomb M388, the
Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 487. second from Tomb 331.

٫美私́珍藏
商ǎ安陽早期ǎՌ元ע十˕至十̣ˠ紀ǎ青銅斝
Ϝ源
私́珍藏
關西
年͠עՆ藏
日本私́珍藏
年Ն藏
紐☼ωૈ得
年 月 日
拍品編號

(clan sign on interior)

(another view)