LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC

细节

A RARE BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC
The deep sides are raised on three blade-shaped legs and are flat-cast around the sides with two pairs of bottle-horn dragons separated by flanges, one pair confronted on another flange and the other pair confronted on a four-character inscription cast under the handle. All on a leiwen ground between scale borders and below a band of triangles and two larger dragons on the underside of the spout. A pair of posts with rounded caps rise from the rim. The surface has a milky green patina.
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

来源

Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection, Hong Kong, prior to 1988.
Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection; Sotheby's London, 7 June 2000, lot 3.

出版

J. Rawson, The Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, pp. 52-3, no. 12.

展览

New York, E & J Frankel Ltd., Wine and Spirits of the Ancestors, 22 March - 28 April 2001, no. 2.
New York, E & J Frankel Ltd., Four Decades: Fortieth Anniversary Retrospect, 22 March - 28 April 2007, no. 33.

拍品专文

The inscription includes a clan sign followed by the characters zuo Fu Yi (made [for] Father Yi).

This jue is very unusual in showing four distinct dragons with impressive curved horns rather than the more customary stylized taotie design, and in having narrow scale borders around the primary decorative band. Similar dragons can be seen on two jue of different form excavated from tombs at Xiaodun, Anyang, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi guanji, vol. 3, Beijing, 1997, pls. 4 and 5, where examples of the more common type can also be seen, pls. 19-27. Compare, also, an early Western Zhou jue with similar scale borders, but with the spout and neck undecorated, from Chuyucun, Zhouzhi county, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Shaanxi chutu Shang Zhou qingtongqi, vol. 4, Beijing, 1984, pl. 164.

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC

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