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A RARE BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE
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A RARE BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC

已结束2015年9月18日

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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

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.

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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.