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PROPERTY FROM A PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLECTION This vessel is representative of decoration associated with bronzes
excavated in 1923 in Liyu, northern Shanxi. The “Liyu style” is
8096 characterized by a progression of interlocking and overlapping
A CAST BRONZE CEREMONIAL TRIPOD AND COVER, DING dragon bands embellished with a wide variety of volutes, spirals,
Eastern Zhou dynasty feathers, horns and other motifs cast on the surface of bronze
Finely executed, the vessel of compressed globular form cast with vessels, rendered in flat decoration or complex raised patterns. For
a raised string band at mid-section, three sturdy legs and a pair of published examples of related ding with extensive analysis, see
flared U-shaped handles below a constricted lip that supports the George W. Weber, Jr. The Ornaments of late Chou Bronzes. Rutgers
domed lid with its flaring finial, the finial and handles covered with University Press, 1973, pp. 95-97, R.O. #30; ex C. T. Loo collection,
tiny spirals and dissolved dragons, the walls of the cover and body now in the Royal Ontario Museum; Max Loehr. Ritual Vessel of
encircled with bands of more complex interlaced dragons against a Bronze Age China. Asia House, 1968., no. 63; Rene-Yvon Lefebvre
leiwen ground. d’Argencé Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage
15 1/4in (38.8cm) width across handles Collection. Kodansha, 1977, pp. 118-121; John Alexander Pope et
13in (33cm) height with lid al.The Freer Chinese Bronzes. Volume 1. Washington, 1967, no. 96.

US$40,000 - 60,000

Provenance
Spink and Sons, London

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