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PROPERTY FROM THE MACLEAN COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM THE MACLEAN COLLECTION at Christie’s New York, 24th September 2020, lot 1510.
AN ARCHAIC SILVER-INLAID AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND Related he of the period, but with slightly simpler decoration
BRONZE FERRULE COVER (HE) and supported on cabriole legs, include one excavated in
Chengdu, Sichuan province bearing an inscription dedicated
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES to Marquis Chun Cheng, and published in Chen Peifen, Xia
STATES PERIOD PERIOD Shang Zhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Dong Zhou pian, xia [Study
(2) Length 10½ in., 26.7 cm of bronzes of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods: Eastern
Length 4½ in., 11.4 cm Zhou, vol. 2], Shanghai, 2004, pl. 628; one with inlaid copper
PROVENANCE details from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and now in
PROVENANCE Acquired in Hong Kong, 1996. the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Sotheby’s London, 26th July 1966, lot 1. Washington, D.C. (accession no. S1987.315a-b), published
Collection of Peter Hariolf Plesch (1918-2013). LITERATURE in Jenny F. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur
Christie’s London, 5th November 2009, lot 193. Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection: M. Sackler Collections, vol. III, New York, 1995, pl. 84; one
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 48. sold first in our London rooms, 17th November 1999, lot 703,
$ 3,000-5,000 and later in these rooms, 21st September 2006, lot 153;
The present he has a notably complex design involving and one sold in these rooms, 31st March - 1st April 2005,
sculptural bird-form legs and spout, an openwork feline-
東周 戰國 銅錯銀卷雲紋鐏 form handle, and three decorative bands each featuring lot 154A.
different animals. A very similar he, with slight variations $ 20,000-30,000
來源 to the details and including a monkey-form knop on the
倫敦蘇富比1966年7月26日，編號1 cover, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, was
Peter Hariolf Plesch (1918-2013) 收藏 exhibited and published in Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors, 東周 戰國 青銅獸紋盉
倫敦佳士得2009年11月5日，編號193 Scholars, and their Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, 2018, cat. no. 101. Another, with composite human- 來源
825 bird-form legs and a solid handle cast in intricate high relief 購於香港，1996年
imitating openwork, from the Jingguantang Collection, 出版
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd November 1996, lot 597. 彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
More recently, a he of the present type, but with bird-and-
human legs, a solid handle, and bands of copper inlay, sold Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版48

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PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL
AND COVER (DING)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, LATE SPRING AND
AUTUMN / EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD
(2)
Width 8¾ in., 22.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellesworth (1929-2014), coll.
no. B1301.
Sotheby’s New York, 19th March 2002, lot 31.
$ 10,000-15,000

東周 春秋末 / 戰國初 青銅省變形蟬紋
鼎

來源
安思遠收藏，收藏編號B1301
紐約蘇富比2002年3月19日，編號31
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