Lot Essay
The character cast beneath the handle is the cylical character xin.
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three blade-shaped supports, the deep body flat-cast with a band comprising two taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground, one mask divided by a single-character inscription cast beneath the C-shaped handle which is surmounted by a bovine mask, with a pair of posts with whorl-cast conical caps rising from the rim, the smooth mottled olive-green and blackish patina with areas of blue-green encrustation
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three blade-shaped supports, the deep body flat-cast with a band comprising two taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground, one mask divided by a single-character inscription cast beneath the C-shaped handle which is surmounted by a bovine mask, with a pair of posts with whorl-cast conical caps rising from the rim, the smooth mottled olive-green and blackish patina with areas of blue-green encrustation
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired prior to 1978.
Literature
Luo Zhenyu, Zhen Song Tang ji gu yiwen, 1931, xubian 3.2a (inscription).
Liu Tizi, Shan Zhai jijin lu, 1934.
Liu Tizi, Xiaojinggi jinwen taben, 1935, 6.8.5.
Wang Chen, Xu Yin wen cun, 1935, 2.5.5.
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wen cun, 1937, 15.13.4.
G. Kuwayama, ed., The Great Bronze Age of China, a symposium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, p. 127, figs. 3-4.
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 198-9, no. 20.
Liu Tizi, Shan Zhai jijin lu, 1934.
Liu Tizi, Xiaojinggi jinwen taben, 1935, 6.8.5.
Wang Chen, Xu Yin wen cun, 1935, 2.5.5.
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wen cun, 1937, 15.13.4.
G. Kuwayama, ed., The Great Bronze Age of China, a symposium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, p. 127, figs. 3-4.
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 198-9, no. 20.
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