A PAIR OF ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSELS (JUE) SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH / 11TH CENTURY BC each cast with a deep 'U'-shaped body, raised on three blade-form tapering legs, two pictographs cast beneath the loop handle on one side issuing from a bovine head and centered on two finely cast taotie masks divided by low vertical flanges forming a continuous frieze around the sides, a band of finely cast upright blades rising beneath the flared rim extending towards the edges of the rim from which rise two capped upright posts, with a mottled green patina and some encrustation (2) Heights 8 in., 20.3 cm
A PAIR OF ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSELS (JUE) SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH / 11TH CENTURY BC each cast with a deep 'U'-shaped body, raised on three blade-form tapering legs, two pictographs cast beneath the loop handle on one side issuing from a bovine head and centered on two finely cast taotie masks divided by low vertical flanges forming a continuous frieze around the sides, a band of finely cast upright blades rising beneath the flared rim extending towards the edges of the rim from which rise two capped upright posts, with a mottled green patina and some encrustation (2) Heights 8 in., 20.3 cm
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