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5 août 2017

A rare bronze ritual food vessel, yu, Late Shang Dynasty, 12th-11th Century BC 

A rare bronze ritual food vessel, yu, Late Shang Dynasty, 12th-11th Century BC 

Lot 1518. A rare bronze ritual food vessel, yu, Late Shang Dynasty, 12th-11th Century BC, 9½ in. (24 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000Price realised USD 326,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012

With deep rounded sides flaring very slightly towards the flat everted rim, finely flat-cast with a band of three taotie masks with convex pupils flanked by pairs of addorsed birds with backward-turned heads and curled tails, all reserved on a leiwen ground, raised on a slightly flared foot cast with six 'eyes' that center scroll-filled, tapering diagonals, and are positioned below the taotie masks in the upper band and the vertical mold join lines, with a golden-silver patina and areas of heavy malachite enrustation, stand.

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong in 2000

NoteYu were popular during the Anyang phase of the Shang dynasty, but disappeared in the early Western Zhou, to be replaced by the handled gui.

Compare the yu of similar proportions, but of slightly larger size (25 cm. diam.) and with different cast designs below the rim and around the foot, illustrated in Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Grain Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1985, pp. 178-9, pl. 5, where it is dated late Shang dynasty. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Part I), 22 - 23 March 2012, New York

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