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Lot Essay
Acquired by the present owner in September 1968.
Two closely related examples, the Yi jia in the St Louis Art Museum and the Mu Gui jia from the Shanghai Museum, both are published by R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Harvard University Press, 1987, figs. 10.1 and 10.2 respectively. A related jia, cast with an unadorned lobed body, illustrated ibid., no. 10.
Two closely related examples, the Yi jia in the St Louis Art Museum and the Mu Gui jia from the Shanghai Museum, both are published by R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Harvard University Press, 1987, figs. 10.1 and 10.2 respectively. A related jia, cast with an unadorned lobed body, illustrated ibid., no. 10.