A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep body is raised on three blade-shaped supports and is flat-cast on the sides with two taoie masks with rounded eyes separated by a notched flange, one mask is centered by a further flange, and the other by the handle, all below a band of triangular blades. A pair of posts with conical caps rises from the rim. There is extensive, heavy encrustation.
7½ in. (19 cm.) wide, Japanese persimmon wood box
Provenance
Yamanaka, Tokyo, 1924.
Hayashibara Family Collection.
Literature
Yamanaka, Kodai Bijitsu Tangkan, 3 November 1924, lot 415.

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