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SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Details
A WELL-CAST BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep U-shaped body raised on three blade supports and crisply cast in thread relief with two taotie masks reserved on a leiwen band, one confronted on a shallow flange, the other on the C-shaped handle, the rim rising to a peak opposite the long spout flanked by a pair of posts surmounted by conical caps, with a two-character inscription cast beneath the handle, with extensive blue-green encrustation
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high, wood box, stand
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep U-shaped body raised on three blade supports and crisply cast in thread relief with two taotie masks reserved on a leiwen band, one confronted on a shallow flange, the other on the C-shaped handle, the rim rising to a peak opposite the long spout flanked by a pair of posts surmounted by conical caps, with a two-character inscription cast beneath the handle, with extensive blue-green encrustation
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high, wood box, stand
Provenance
Acquired in Tokyo in the early 1950s.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Hall of Flowers, Treasures of the Orient, Society for Asian Art, 1979, no. 6.