AN ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD LIBATION VESSEL, jue, the deep cup raised on blade-like legs and finely cast around the body with raised bosses on a leiwen ground forming dissolved taotie, one side divided by a loop handle, the reverse with a raised vertical rib, the rim with two posts with conical finials cast with whorl patterns, the bronze with pale green and gun-metal patina with areas of malachite encrustation, late Shang Dynasty