A PAIR OF ARCHAISTIC BRONZE EWERS, JUE China, Qing dynasty

A PAIR OF ARCHAISTIC BRONZE EWERS, JUE
China, Qing dynasty

The two ewers with a shape clearly inspired by similar bronze ritual containers of the Shang dynasty, supported by three feet and with a wide ship-like mouth with two pinnacles, with an ear handle coming from an animal head, the body with an incised decoration also of archaic inspiration, an incised inscription near the handles.

32cm high each

Provenance: Italian private collection.

The two vases are published in the volume Collection particulière à la découverte de chefs-doeuvre inconnus..., 2 vols., Algarve, circa 1990, pp. 205-206, dated to the Shang dynasty.