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LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
Details
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is raised on three blade-form supports, and the sides are finely cast with a band of leiwen motif, attached to one side with a handle emerging from a bovine mask. A pair of posts with waisted caps decorated with a band of cloud whorls rise from the mouth rim. An inscription, tian fu jia (Father Jia of Tian Family), is cast beneath the handle. The bronze has a mottled, milky green patina with malachite encrustation.
7 3⁄4 in. (19.6 cm.) high
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is raised on three blade-form supports, and the sides are finely cast with a band of leiwen motif, attached to one side with a handle emerging from a bovine mask. A pair of posts with waisted caps decorated with a band of cloud whorls rise from the mouth rim. An inscription, tian fu jia (Father Jia of Tian Family), is cast beneath the handle. The bronze has a mottled, milky green patina with malachite encrustation.
7 3⁄4 in. (19.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Nakakado Hisao, Oita (by repute)
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 2020, lot 619
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 2020, lot 619
Literature
Saito Etsuzo, To’an, Osaka, 1928, no. 5
Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen (Gathering of Ancient Writings at the Zhensongtang Studio), 1930, no. 10.1.3
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun (Surviving Writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties), 1936, no. 16.3.8
John Calvin Ferguson, Lidai zhulu jijin mu (List of bronzes in ancient records), 1939, no. 44.300
Zeng Yigong, Shangdong Jinwen Jicun (Bronze Inscriptions from Shandong), 1940
Minao Hayashi, In Shu Seidoki Soran Ichi (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes), vol. I, Shanghai, 2013, p. 145 and 416, no. 106
Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen (Gathering of Ancient Writings at the Zhensongtang Studio), 1930, no. 10.1.3
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun (Surviving Writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties), 1936, no. 16.3.8
John Calvin Ferguson, Lidai zhulu jijin mu (List of bronzes in ancient records), 1939, no. 44.300
Zeng Yigong, Shangdong Jinwen Jicun (Bronze Inscriptions from Shandong), 1940
Minao Hayashi, In Shu Seidoki Soran Ichi (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes), vol. I, Shanghai, 2013, p. 145 and 416, no. 106
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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請注意，此拍品不設底價。
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