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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, JUE
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH/11TH CENTURY B.C.
The deep body raised on three blade supports and cast with two taotie masks formed by pairs of confronted dragons reserved on a leiwen band, with a pair of capped posts rising from the rim and a three-character pictogram cast in intaglio below the mask-capped C-scroll handle, with some mottled green encrustation
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) high, wood stand
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH/11TH CENTURY B.C.
The deep body raised on three blade supports and cast with two taotie masks formed by pairs of confronted dragons reserved on a leiwen band, with a pair of capped posts rising from the rim and a three-character pictogram cast in intaglio below the mask-capped C-scroll handle, with some mottled green encrustation
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) high, wood stand
Exhibited
San Antonio Museum of Art, February-November, 1996, loan no. L.84.5