A CHINESE ARCHAIC BRONZE JUE LATE SHANG DYNASTY... Lot 78

A CHINESE ARCHAIC BRONZE JUE LATE SHANG DYNASTY The sides of the wine vessel cast with two large taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground, one side with a C-shaped strap handle issuing from a bovine mask, the body rising to a pointed tail and curved spout flanked by two posts with waisted caps, all raised on three tall triangular-section legs resembling blades, the bronze with a dark greenish-brown patina, with a paper label for the H J Lowenthal Collection, 110, 21.3cm, 806g. Provenance: formerly in the collection of Dr Robert Heilbroner, New York, 1960s; then no.2 in the Summer Exhibition 2010 at Roger Keverne Ltd; and then the collection of Mr H J Lowenthal, no.110. Dr Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005) was a famous economist and was a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York for over twenty years. He is best known for writing The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953).