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Lot 227
An archaic bronze tripod wine vessel, jue Late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £26,250 inc. premium
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An archaic bronze tripod wine vessel, jue
Late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty
Typically cast with three tall plain legs supporting a deeply-hollowed vessel with one sharp pointed end to the rim and the other shallowly hollowed as a spout, cast around the body with two taotie masks divided by vertical flanges on a band of leiwen, the simple loop handle over a single pictogram, the surface with extensive light turquoise shallow encrustation remaining, especially on the upper part. 19.5cm (7½in) high
Typically cast with three tall plain legs supporting a deeply-hollowed vessel with one sharp pointed end to the rim and the other shallowly hollowed as a spout, cast around the body with two taotie masks divided by vertical flanges on a band of leiwen, the simple loop handle over a single pictogram, the surface with extensive light turquoise shallow encrustation remaining, especially on the upper part. 19.5cm (7½in) high
Footnotes
Provenance: Christie's London, 13 September 2001, lot 121
An English private collection
商晚期/西周早期 青銅饕餮紋爵
來源: 佳士得,倫敦,2001年9月13日,拍賣品號121
英國私人收藏
Compare a similar bronze jue from the collection of Anthony Hardy, sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 2010, lot 817.


