Lot 3591
3591
A RARE GILT-SPLASHED ARCHAISTIC WINE VESSEL, JUE
The Property of a Southeast Asian Collector
A RARE GILT-SPLASHED ARCHAISTIC WINE VESSEL, JUE

LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

Details
A RARE GILT-SPLASHED ARCHAISTIC WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The vessel is cast with a characteristic pair of short posts on the mouth rim dividing the elongated pouring mouth and an exaggerated lip, decorated around the exterior of the cylindrical receptacle with taotie-masks against a leiwen-ground and divided by vertical flanges, one side with a loop-handle emerging from an animal-head, all raised on three tapered blade legs. It is decorated overall with characteristic gilt splashes.
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high
Provenance
A Japanese private collection
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2009, lot 1956

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Lot Essay

The base of this jue is inscribed with a slightly obscured mark in archaic script with a mark, reading Boshen Zuo Baoyi, 'Boshen made this precious vessel'. Compare to a similar jue bearing a same mark included in the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong Exhibition, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, 1986, Catalogue, no. 161; and another sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 771.

It is interesting to note that not only the form and decoration were copied in reverence to archaism but the inscription has been taken directly from characters inscribed on late Shang/early Zhou dynasty vessels. The name Boshen appears to be unrecorded.

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