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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep body raised on three slightly curved blade-form supports and crisply cast around the sides with two registers of taotie masks dissolved in small scrolls, the mask on one side interrupted by the handle that issues from a bovine mask, with further scrolls on the underside of the spout, and with a pair of tall posts with whorl bosses rising from the rim, with dark grey patina and malachite encrustation, the interior with a lengthy inscription
7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box
来源
Kochukyo, Japan, 1920s.
Private Japanese collection.
出版
Liu Xin Yun (1848-1919), Qi Gu Shi Ji Jian Wen Shu, vol. 7. S. Umehara, Nihon Shucho Shina Kodo Seika, Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1961, no. 227.
拍场告示
Please note the dating of this lot should read: Early Western Zhou dynasty, late 11th - early 10th century BC

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The lengthy inscription cast in the interior of the vessel reads, Wei wang chu fu yu Cheng Zhou, Wang ming Yu ning Deng bo, bin bei yong zuo fu bao zun yi, which may be translated as, 'King is holding ritual ceremonies at Cheng Zhou, King ordered Yu to placate the Count of the Kingdom of Deng, who gifted Yu shells to cast this precious vessel for his father'. Yu is the surname of a Western Zhou noble and military commander under King Kan (1020-996 BC). An inscription on a famous large ding in the National Musem of China also records an incident where Kong Kan bestowed gifts upon Yu.

It is very rare to find a jue cast with two registers of taotie masks. Compare two other jue with similar arrangement of decoration, the first illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 144-5, no. 7, and the second illustrated by S.D. Owyoung in Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 1997, no. 22.