AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, JUE LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The deep body raised on three slightly curved blade-form supports and crisply cast around the sides with two registers of taotie masks, those in the lower register dissolved in small scrolls, the larger masks in the upper register more defined and framed by quills on the sides, the mask on one side interrupted by a three-character inscription cast beneath the handle that issues from a bovine mask, with further scrolls on the underside of the spout, and with a pair of tall posts with reel-shaped posts rising from the rim, with dark grey patina and malachite encrustation 8 3/8 in. (21.4 cm.) high
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, JUE LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The deep body raised on three slightly curved blade-form supports and crisply cast around the sides with two registers of taotie masks, those in the lower register dissolved in small scrolls, the larger masks in the upper register more defined and framed by quills on the sides, the mask on one side interrupted by a three-character inscription cast beneath the handle that issues from a bovine mask, with further scrolls on the underside of the spout, and with a pair of tall posts with reel-shaped posts rising from the rim, with dark grey patina and malachite encrustation 8 3/8 in. (21.4 cm.) high
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