Lot 352
352
A BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE

SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

Details
A BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep U-shaped body cast with a band of two pairs of confronted kui dragons reserved on leiwen grounds, with a four-character inscription cast beneath the loop handle issuing from a bovine mask, the rim set with two posts surmounted by waisted caps decorated with whorls, with mottled green patina and some encrustation
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull; Sotheby's, New York, 6 December, 1983, lot 14.

Lot Essay

Compare a similar jue illustrated by Jung Keng, Yenching Journal of Chinese Studies, Monograph Series No. 17, The Bronzes of Shang and Chou, vol. II, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1941, Beijing, p. 227, pl. 428, and one excavated from the Baoji area of Shaanxi, illustrated in Bronzes of Shang and Zhou Dynasties Unearthed in Shaanxi Province, vol. III, Beijing, 1980, no. 68.

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