AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE


Late Shang dynasty，12th/11th century BCERaised on three blade-form supports, the U-shaped body elegantly cast with a wide band of taotie masks separated by vertical flanges and reserved on an elegant leiwen ground extending to cicada blades under the flared spout and rim and set off by two whorl-capped posts and a plain curved handle partly obscuring a cast pictogram of a kneeling figure, the surface covered in areas with a rich malachite and cuprite patina.7 1/8in (18.2cm) high
|商晚期 公元前十一/十二世紀 青銅饕餮紋爵Provenance:A Private Collector, Northern CaliforniaBluetts, 1978, by receipt