Lot Essay
Jue vessels with clan marks are most commonly seen during the late Shang dynasty, with some extant from the early Zhou dynasty. This one bears under the handle a losange shaped clan mark that we can associate closely with that identified as 1808 on various ritual vessels, see Wang Xinyi and Gao Ming, Shang Zhou tuxing wenzi bian, Beijing, 2007, p. 771. Compare to another sold at Christie's, Paris, 19 December 2012, lot 86.