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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, JUE Late Shang Dynasty image 1
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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, JUE
Late Shang Dynasty

Fine Chinese Art
15 May 2025, 11:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, JUE

Late Shang Dynasty
Supported on three splayed, blade-like legs, the body with a mythical beast-head handle on one side, elongating at the rim to a cupped spout at one end and a raised pointed tip at the other, the rim topped with two short posts with conical caps each cast with whorl motifs, the body cast with two taotie masks amongst dense archaistic scrolls at the waist.
22cm (8 5/8 in) high.

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商晚期 獸面紋爵杯

Provenance: a Hong Kong private collection
Bonhams Hong Kong, 24 November 2013, lot 451

來源：香港私人收藏
香港邦瀚斯，2013年11月24日，拍品編號451

A similar archaic jue, in the Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp.132-133, no.5. See also a closely related example in the Arthur M. Sackler collection, illustrated by R.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Washington, 1987, pp.198-199, no.20. Compare with an excavated example unearthed at Henan Province in 1980, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji. Shang 4, Beijing, 1998, p.51, no.53.

Compare with a bronze jue of similar shape, late Shang dynasty, which was sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 2023, lot 853.

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