Lot 721
721
A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA
A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA
A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA
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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION
A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA

Details
A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA
The vessel is raised on three tall tapering, triangular blade-form supports. The body is well cast in relief with two registers of taotie masks separated by flanges as well as by the loop handle surmounted by a horned animal mask below the rectangular posts rising from the rim cast with rooster-form caps. There is an inscription cast on one post and the patina is of a mottled dark green tone.
27 in. (69.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.

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Lot Essay


This jia is based on elaborately-cast Shang dynasty prototypes, such as the jia with bird-form posts in the Shanxi Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan: Qingtong juan (Compendium of Treasures of Chinese Cultural Relics: Archaic Bronzes), Hong Kong, 1994, p. 53, no. 186.

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