Lot 1442
1442
A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The unusually large vessel is raised on three blade-shaped legs and is crisply cast in relief on the deep sides with two taotie masks reserved on a leiwen band and separated by notched flanges below a band of blades. One mask is divided by a further flange and the other by the C-shaped handle surmounted by a bovine head. A pair of semi-circular posts surmounted by whorl-cast conical caps rises from the rim. The surface has a mottled milky-green patina, and some earth encrustation on the interior.
9 7/8 in. (29 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Hong Kong in 1993.
Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong.

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Lot Essay

It is very rare to find a jue of such large size. A similarly large, but slightly smaller (25.1 cm.) jue, in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated in A Descriptive and Illustrative Catalogue of Chinese Bronzes, Washington, D.C., 1946, pl. 3 (25.3).

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