SHANG DYNASTY

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A Well-Cast Bronze Libation Vessel, Jue
Shang dynasty
The deep U-shaped body raised on three blade supports and crisply cast in thread relief with two pairs of birds reserved on a leiwen band, one pair confronted on a shallow flange, the other on the C-shaped handle issuing from a bovine mask, the rim rising to a peak opposite the long spout flanked by a pair of posts surmounted by conical caps, with a two-character pictogram cast beneath the handle, with some original bright patina and extensive green encrustation
81/8in. (20.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the two jue of this type, with a band of similar flat-cast decoration formed of similar large spiralling scroll elements illustrated by B. Karlgren, 'Some Characteristics of the Yin Art', B.M.F.E.A., No. 34, Stockholm, 1962, pl. 44 a and b.

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