Lot Essay
The inscription appears outside, cast on the bottom of the vessel, and depicts a small circle and crescent below two kneeling human figures, their backs turned on an unidentied object.
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY BC
Details
A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL WINE JAR, POU
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY BC
Cast with a main band of alternating squares and diamonds filled with angular scrolls surrounding a boss cast in relief, the shoulder with a band of dragon scroll, all within borders of small circles, with a scroll band encircling the foot, the base cast with an inscription
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) across
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY BC
Cast with a main band of alternating squares and diamonds filled with angular scrolls surrounding a boss cast in relief, the shoulder with a band of dragon scroll, all within borders of small circles, with a scroll band encircling the foot, the base cast with an inscription
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) across
Provenance
J.T. Tai & Co., New York, acquired prior to 1977.
Literature
N. Barnard and Cheung Kwong-yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 1309 (inscription only).
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 318-19, no. 52.
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 318-19, no. 52.
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