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The single graph may be interpreted as xian.
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Cast in intaglio around the sides with a band of two taotie masks interrupted by a single graph cast beneath the handle, the pair of posts rising from the rim with hooked scrolls on the conical caps
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Cast in intaglio around the sides with a band of two taotie masks interrupted by a single graph cast beneath the handle, the pair of posts rising from the rim with hooked scrolls on the conical caps
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired prior to 1977.
Literature
R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, New York, 1968.
N. Barnard and Cheung Kwong-yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, 1978, no. 1249 (inscription only).
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 200-1, no. 21.
N. Barnard and Cheung Kwong-yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, 1978, no. 1249 (inscription only).
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 200-1, no. 21.
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