AN UNUSUAL BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE

SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH/11TH CENTURY BC

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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH/11TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three blade-form supports, the deep body cast in crisp relief on two sides with a large taotie mask, one centered on a notched flange, the other on two graphs positioned beneath the loop handle issuing from a taotie mask, the two masks separated by further notched flanges and reserved on a leiwen band below a row of cicada-filled blades that rise towards the rim surmounted by two rectangular posts surmounted by conical caps, the satiny olive patina with some patches of malachite encrustation
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high, two Japanese wood boxes

拍品专文

The two graphs cast beneath the handle may be deciphered , gao (announce) ce (document).

The casting of the cicadas and the taotie masks on this rather large jue are unusually crisp, and the inclusion of cicadas in the blades is quite unusual. A jue in the Shanghai Museum, which is of similar large size (21.2 cm.) and also has what appear to be similar cicadas cast in relief in the blades and equally crisp casting of the taotie masks, is illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji - Shang, vol. 3, Beijing, 1997, p. 21, no. 21.