An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue), Late Shang dynasty | 商末青銅饕餮紋爵

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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Description

An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue)

Late Shang dynasty

商末青銅饕餮紋爵

the deep U-shaped body rising from three splayed triangular blade legs to a pointed rim opposite a guttered spout flanked by a pair of posts capped with conical finials, the exterior cast with taotie masks with bulging eyes, divided by three crenelated vertical flanges, one side set with a loop handle issuing from a bovine mask, enclosing a single-character inscription, the surface with malachite encrustation

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Height 8⅜ in., 21.3 cm

Collection of Barbara J. and Helen S. Myers.

Sotheby's New York, 30th May 1990, lot 16.

Sotheby's New York, 31st March-1st April 2005, lot 149.

來源

Barbara J. 及 Helen S. Myers 收藏

紐約蘇富比1990年5月30日，編號16

紐約蘇富比2005年3月31至4月1日，編號149

Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl. 250.

Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 8.

Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 14, Shanghai, 2012, no. 06440.

出版

汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，圖版250

彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版8

吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷14，上海，2012年，編號06440

The present jue is inscribed with a very rare clan symbol. Only a few examples with the same pictogram are known, including a jue and a ding from the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 07701 and Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 1, Shanghai, 2012, no. 00255, respectively. See also a bronze gu in the Lüshun Museum, Dalian, published in Wu Zhenfeng, op. cit., vol. 17, no. 09164. This clan name has been proposed by scholars as a character composed of the upper element of qi 齊 and a lower radical tian 田. Alternative interpretations of this pictogram suggest it to be zi 𪗉 (see Zhang Yachu, Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng yinde [Index of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2001, p. 370) or yu 畬 (see Wang Benxing, Jinwen zidian [Dictionary of archaic bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2016, p. 226).

An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 青銅饕餮紋爵

An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue), Late Shang dynasty | 商末青銅饕餮紋爵