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拍品專文
The more usually seen bronze form of this vessel was used for heating and pouring wine during Shang dynasty rituals. The capped posts rising from the rim would have allowed the hot metal vessel to be lifted from the heat and poured.
The low ridges on the body of this ceramic jue may relate to the so-called 'bowstring' bands, which appear on some cast bronze examples. Indeed, the slightly globular form of the body of the ceramic piece relates to that of a rather more elongated bronze vessel dated to the 11th-12th century BC and illustrated by R.W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 192-3, no. 17.
While a number of ceramic versions of Shang dynasty bronze ritual vessels are known, for example zun and gu, there are far fewer jue and jia. These tripod vessels with their slender legs would have been more difficult to fire successfully, and in order to do so the underside of the jue would have been supported during firing, as would the extended spout. The same problems of support during firing faced the potters over two thousand years later when they sought to produce this form in porcelain. A Shang dynasty pottery jia excavated from Zhengzhou, Henan province is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; Gongyi meishu bian; 1 Taoci; Shang, Shanghai, 1988, no. 70. Some greatly simplified jue have been identified, such as the vessel in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 63, no. 20. This vessel has no posts, a shorter lip and shorter, more sturdy legs.
The low ridges on the body of this ceramic jue may relate to the so-called 'bowstring' bands, which appear on some cast bronze examples. Indeed, the slightly globular form of the body of the ceramic piece relates to that of a rather more elongated bronze vessel dated to the 11th-12th century BC and illustrated by R.W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 192-3, no. 17.
While a number of ceramic versions of Shang dynasty bronze ritual vessels are known, for example zun and gu, there are far fewer jue and jia. These tripod vessels with their slender legs would have been more difficult to fire successfully, and in order to do so the underside of the jue would have been supported during firing, as would the extended spout. The same problems of support during firing faced the potters over two thousand years later when they sought to produce this form in porcelain. A Shang dynasty pottery jia excavated from Zhengzhou, Henan province is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; Gongyi meishu bian; 1 Taoci; Shang, Shanghai, 1988, no. 70. Some greatly simplified jue have been identified, such as the vessel in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 63, no. 20. This vessel has no posts, a shorter lip and shorter, more sturdy legs.