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The single graph cast beneath the handle can be read
as bing, one of the calendrical ‘Heavenly Stems’ - here
it may be read as a personal name.

Two jue in the British Museum and Shanghai Museum
collections are very similar in form and ornamentation
style. Stylistic features such as a deep body, relative
to splayed feet, low scored fanges on three sides of
the vessel, the fourth with bovine mask handle and
inscription underneath. Taotie scrolls and leiwen spirals
in low relief on the main register are surmounted by
triangles in the upper part of the vessel, reaching
toward the rim, from which two whorl-capped posts
rise up. See the British Museum Collection (accession
no. 1935,0115.22) , and Shanghai Bowuguan cang
Qingtongqi, (fuce) , Shanghai 1964, p.15, no. 17.

For other comparable jue see the Sackler Collection,
illustrated by Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington DC and
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 194-195, no.
18. See also a Shang jue in the Collection of Daniel
Shapiro, illustrated in Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The
Collection of Daniel Shapiro, J.J Lally & Co., Hong Kong,
1994, pp. 12-13, no. 2.

See another jue, also described by R. Bagley (ibid p.251,
fg 36.2) said to be from Anyang which is similar to
two other examples, one in the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston (ibid.p. 251, fg 36.1) and in the Freer Gallery
of Art, illustrated in The Freer Chinese Bronzes, vol.I,
Catalogue, Washington 1967, pp. 146-149.

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