A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JIA

SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JIA
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three slightly curved blade-form supports, the S-curved body cast with a band of elongated taotie masks centered on narrow flanges below a band of upright scroll-filled blades repeated on the sides of the waisted posts that rise from the rim, the tops of the posts with a whorl motif, with a three-character inscription cast in the base of the interior, with malachite encrustation and milky-green patina
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high, zitan stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Private collection, Japan, acquired in the late 19th/early 20th century.

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Lot Essay

A slightly smaller (26.3 cm.) jia of similar proportions and with similar narrow taotie and blade bands around the neck, but with a wide band of taotie masks around the body, was excavated in 1959 from Tomb 1 in the Shang dynasty village of Wuguanbeidi, Anyang, Henan province. See Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 3 - Shang (3), Beijing, 1997, p. 47, no. 47.

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