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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
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A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD
VESSELS, LIDING
MID-SHANG DYNASTY, 14TH-13TH CENTURY BC
The exterior of each tri-lobed vessel is cast below the rim with a narrow These liding with their unusual decorative bands are similar to a liding
band of scrolls that taper in a diagonal from a central "eye," all between of similar height (19.5 cm.) illustrated in Shang and Zhou Bronzes
two rows of circles. from Shaanxi Province, Beijing, 1979, p. 74, pl. 71, where it is dated
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high, cloth boxes (2) late Shang. Similar bands can also be seen above and below a taotie
band on the sides of a fangding illustrated by Bernhard Karlgren in
"Marginalia on Some Bronze Albums," BMFEA, No. 32, Stockholm,
$60,000-80,000
1960, PL. 44b,
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1991.
商中期 青銅斜角目雲紋鬲鼎一對

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