A FINE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD LIBATION WINE VESSEL, JUE

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A FINE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD LIBATION WINE VESSEL, JUE
shang dynasty
The body supported on blade-like legs and cast with a band of taotie divided by ridged vertical flanges below cicada wing motifs around the neck, all on a leiwen ground, an ox-head loop handle at one side concealing an impressed pictogram, the vertical posts with conical terminals with whorl patterns, the pale olive patina with some encrustation, one leg restored
7½in. (19cm.) high

Provenance

Previously sold in London, 15 April 1985, lot 10

Lot Essay

The sword pictogram reads fu, 'father'.

Compare similar jue vessels illustrated by Rawson and Bunker, Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, 1990, p.70, no.5; in Henan Chutu Shang Zhou Qingtong Qi, vol.I, 1981, no.239; in Yinxu Qingtongqi, 1985, fig.71, excavated from the Yinxu tombs dated to period II at Anyang; and by Sullivan from the Barlow Collection, Catalogue, pl.147a.

Comparable vessels were sold in these Rooms, 6 June 1994, lot 64; 6 December 1993, lot 1; and 11 December 1989, lot 181

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