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Jue pouring vessel
€168,750
In this non-speciality programme on 29
March, China (with great success into the
bargain) accounted for seventy lots ranging
from the most distant Antiquity to the 19th
century (Daguerre). Five archaic bronze vases
totalled €453,750. As we know, these archaic
pieces were ritual objects used in the Chinese
liturgy. As time went by, they became sumptuary
objects symbolising power. €168,750 went to the
jue pouring vessel illustrated, dating from the
end of the Shang dynasty (1570-1045 BC). In the
second millennium BC, bronze began to replace
ceramics, which had developed considerably
during the Neolithic period. Meanwhile, a vase
from the late Shang/early Eastern Zhou dynasty –
i.e. the 12th-11th century BC – went up to
€102,500. With so-called East India Company
porcelain, €93,750 (triple the estimate) went to a
terrine dish with lid in the form of a goose (l. 35.5
cm), with natural polychrome decoration, from
the Qianlong period (1736-1795). We know that
in 1763, the Dutch East India Company commissioned
25 similar copies for a number of private
European buyers. This type of terrine dish was
probably inspired by earthenware models
produced in Strasbourg under the influence of
Adam von Löwenfinck, in 1750-1754. S. A.
€168,750 China, late Shang dynasty, 11th century BC.
Bronze jue pouring vessel, h. 21.2 cm.
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