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A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD
VESSEL AND COVER, DUI
Warring States Period
The domed cover and rounded base completely
interchangeable cast in mirror image, of plain
hemispherical form, each applied with two plain loop
handles at the rim and three upright handles/feet in
the shape of standing stylised dragons.
24cm (9 1/2in) high. (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國 青銅敦

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2006,
no.11.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2006年，編號11

A very similar bronze dui, Warring States period, 29
excavated from Tomb No.1 at Wangshan, Jiangling
in 1965, and now in the collection of the Hubei
Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Pre-Qin
Civilization in the Jiangshan Region, Hong Kong,
1999, p.110, no.72. See another example illustrated
by Kao Jen-chun, Masterworks of Chinese Bronzes
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1973, no.18;
compare also with a similar dui, reportedly from
Anhui Shou Xian Zhujiaji, 2nd half of 3rd century BC,
illustrated by J.So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from
the Arthur M.Sackler Collections, New York, 1995,
p.69, fig.126.

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THREE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL VESSELS
Warring States/Han Dynasty
Comprising a tripod vessel and cover, ding, cast
with a pair of upright loop handles, supported
on three waisted legs, the shallow domed cover
cast with three evenly-spaced handles, 19.7cm (7
3/4in) wide; a tripod cooking vessel, jiaodou, with
a dragon-head handle, 27cm (10 1/2in) long; and
a cylindrical vase raised on three legs issuing from
animal heads, the body set with a pair of taotie 30
handles suspending loose rings,
25.5cm (10in) high. (4).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國/漢 青銅禮器 一組三件

See a soup-warming vessel with dragon-head
handle, Six dynasties, in the collection of the
Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Travelling
Exhibitions of the Palace Museum. The Forbidden
City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperor, Beijing,
2016, no.150, where it is noted that: ‘These bronze
vessels were some of Emperor Qianlong’s favourite
treasures’; and a related example of the tripod
vessel on the left, illustrated by B.Laufer, Chinese
Pottery of the Han Dynasty, Leiden, 1962, pl.XX,
fig.3; for an example related to the cylindrical base,
see International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London,
1935, no.114.
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