A LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE JAR, HU

SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 1300-1200 BC

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A LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE JAR, HU
SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 1300-1200 BC
The pear-shaped body of oval section flat-cast around the sides with two registers displaying large taotie masks with rounded eyes on each side, and separated by a narrow band comprised of four taotie masks, the masks on the belly surmounted by pairs of dragons and flanked by inverted dragons, while the masks on the neck are flanked by small kui dragons below a band of pairs of dragons with backward-turned heads facing the lug handles cast with ram's heads, the spreading foot encircled by a band of long-tailed birds with backward-turned heads, all reserved on leiwen grounds, the base of the interior cast with a two-character inscription, with mottled light green patina and some areas of malachite encrustation
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) high, box

來源

T.Y. King, Shanghai.
L. Austin Collection, Vannes.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 8 August 1985.
Hotel Druot, 18-19 November 1974, lot 208.

出版

Scarpari, Ancient China, 2006 ed., p. 182, fig. 182 left.

展覽

Twenty-Five Years, Eskenazi Ltd., 1985, no. 1.
Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, no. 14.
The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, no. 19.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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The two-character inscription is a Shang dynasty clan sign.

This full-bodied hu, with its flat-cast decoration arranged in registers, is very similar to one with a cover, illustrated by Jung Keng, "The Bronzes of Shang and Chou", Yenching Journal of Chinese Studies, Monograph Series No. 17, Peiping, 1941, vol. 2, pl. 376, no. 709. A hu in the Qing Court Collection, Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 27 - Bronze Ritual Vessels and Musical Instruments, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 144, no. 92, is similar in most respects, but has some variations in the decoration. (Fig. 1) Other related hu include one in a private Japanese collection illustrated by R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, p. 90, fig. 87; the example in the Sackler Collections illustrated by Bagley, pp. 340-5, no. 58; and the example in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated, p. 343, fig. 58.2.