white with underglaze blue decor; Qianlong four-character seal mark and period two mushroom rim caps, loop handle and three flaring tall legs painted with band of flying cranes below rim and repeated around well of base; molded with three peaks at center to support Jue on short four-footed stand

Vessel in the shape of an archaic jue, 1736-1795

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The shape of this tripod vessel, called jue, derives from ancient Shang dynasty (1100s–1000s BCE) ritual bronzes of the same name. Those bronzes were used for the ceremonial heating and drinking of wine. But this cup and stand probably served as a small water container or brush washer. Blue-and-white porcelain did not typically take the organic forms, inspired by nature, that the Chinese literati preferred, but as the reference here is to China’s illustrious Bronze Age, it would have made this piece acceptable to them.

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Vessel in the shape of an archaic jue
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95.98.77a,b
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white with underglaze blue decor; Qianlong four-character seal mark and period two mushroom rim caps, loop handle and three flaring tall legs painted with band of flying cranes below rim and repeated around well of base; molded with three peaks at center to support Jue on short four-footed stand