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LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
Details
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, GENG JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The deep, U-shaped body is raised on three blade-like legs and is decorated with two taotie masks formed by pairs of dragons, one centered on a narrow flange, the other on a pictograph, geng, cast beneath the curved handle surmounted by a buffalo head. The interior of one of the two capped posts has a later-added inscription. The bronze has a smooth greenish-brown patina.
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The deep, U-shaped body is raised on three blade-like legs and is decorated with two taotie masks formed by pairs of dragons, one centered on a narrow flange, the other on a pictograph, geng, cast beneath the curved handle surmounted by a buffalo head. The interior of one of the two capped posts has a later-added inscription. The bronze has a smooth greenish-brown patina.
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Provenance
J. T. Tai & Co., New York, 1960.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
Literature
N. Barnard and K. Y. Cheung, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 553.
R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 204-05, no. 23.
R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 204-05, no. 23.
Exhibited
On loan: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.