A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE

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
The deep vessel is raised on three blade-form supports and is cast on the sides with two taotie masks, one centered on a narrow flange, the other on the loop handle, all below a pair of posts with conical caps that rise from the rim. There is mottled milky green patina and areas of encrustation.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Squire, Los Gatos, California, October 1994.

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Lot Essay

Compare the jue of similar proportions, and with similar cast decoration and a plain handle, illustrated by R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, pp. 196-97, no. 19, where it is dated 12th-11th century BC.

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