Details
A LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JIA
LATE SHANG DYNASTY
The body raised on three tall blade supports and cast in shallow relief with three taotie masks, each centered on a slender flange and reserved on a leiwen ground, below two bowstring bands encircling the wide neck below the flared mouth rim, the loop handle projecting from one side surmounted by a buffalo mask, and the pair of posts rising from the rim with cap finials cast with a whorl pattern of commas decorated with scales, with a single graph pictogram cast in the base of the interior, malachite encrustation--14 1/8in. (35.5cm.) high
Literature
Kenneth E. Foster, A Handbook of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, rev. ed., Claremont, California, 1949, no. 15
Yu Xingwu, Shang Zhou jinwen luyi, Beijing, 1957, 282 (inscription only)
Bernhard Karlgren, "Some Characteristics of the Yin Art", B.M.F.E.A., No. 34 (1962), pl. 34a
Noel Barnard, Archaic Chinese Bronzes in Australian and New Zealand Collections, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1975, p. 26, no. 16 (drawing)
Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtong qi fenlei tulu (In Shu seidki bunrui zuroku; A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections), 2 vols., Tokyo, 1977, A309
Noel Barnard and Kwong-yue Cheung, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australian Collections, Taipei, 1978, 987 (inscription only)
Robert W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987, no. 9
