AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (JUE), LATE SHANG DYNASTY

Auction Closed

September 23, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (JUE)

LATE SHANG DYNASTY

商末豐矢爵

the deep U-shaped body supported on three splayed blade-like legs, decorated on each side with a frieze of taotie mask reserved on a fine leiwen ground, centered by a vertical flange and a loop handle, the long spout and pointed tail forming the rim, surmounted by a pair of posts capped by conical tops with sunken whorl pattern, inscribed underneath the handle with two characters reading feng (harvest) and shi (arrow), the surface with malachite encrustation

銘文：

豐矢

Height 7⅝ in., 19.5 cm

Far-East Gallery, Toronto, 1972.

Topper Gallery, Toronto, 28th March 1998.

來源

Far-East Gallery，多倫多，1972年

Topper Gallery，多倫多，1998年3月28日

A group of late Shang dynasty inscribed bronze jue of a very similar design have been sold at auction; see, for example, two sold at Christie's New York, one from the C. Philip Cardeiro Collection, 18th-19th September 2014, lot 988, and the other, 15th September 2011, lot 1110; and another, first sold in our Amsterdam rooms, 13th May 1998, lot 453, and later sold at Christie's New York, 13th-14th September 2012, lot 1224. Compare also three similar bronze jue all sold in these rooms, but with slightly less elaborate taotie designs, the first on 17th March 2015, lot 151, the second from the J.T. Tai Collection on 22nd March 2011, lot 18, and the third on 15th September 2010, lot 279. A bronze jue inscribed with the same feng (harvest) character, excavated from Anyang, Henan province, now in the Anyang Museum, is published in Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 14, Shanghai, 2012, no. 06435, together with another, inscribed with a shi (arrow) character in an upright orientation, also discovered in Anyang, now in the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, no. 06614.