CHINA / 5000 YEARS
CHINA / 5000 YEARS
Property from an American Private Collection
An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 牢爵
Lot Closed
March 28, 02:45 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue)
Late Shang dynasty
商末 牢爵
cast beneath the handle with a single pictogram reading lao
銘文：
牢
Height 7⅛ in., 18.2 cm
Collection of Charles Arthur Nichols, Jr. (1901-1995), acquired in Tianjin in 1947, and thence by descent.
In addition to the present vessel, another late Shang dynasty bronze jue with the same pictogram is recorded. The jue was reputedly discovered in Anyang, Henan province and published in Huang Jun, Yezhong pianyu erji [Feathers from Yezhong series II], vol. 1, Beijing, 1937, p. 25.