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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA The present rare lobed jia is a direct continuation of the tripod wine
Late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty vessel form, elements of which can be seen as early as the late Xia
The bulbous vessel divided into three lobes each tapering to a period, 18th-16th century BC, continuing until the middle Western
straight leg, simplistically cast with zigzagging bowstrings, flanked Zhou period. Towards the end of the Shang Dynasty the jia had
with a buffalo head issuing a loop handle, rising to a flaring rim set developed the li-shaped body with a tri-lobed form, as seen on the
with two staves with domed caps. present lot, which then continued onto the Western Zhou period; see
23cm (9in) high C. Deydier, Archaic Chinese Bronzes, I, Xia & Shang, Paris, 1995,
pp.237, 239.
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$52,000 - 83,000 Compare two very similar bronze lobed tripod vessels, jia, the first
CNY44,000 - 71,000 in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections and the second, the Mu Gui
jia, said to be from Anyang, in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated
Provenance: Christie’s, 4 December 1995, lot 34 (facsimile of by R.W.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1987, pp.172-173 and 175, fig.10.2.
receipt).

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