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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
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A RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
The body is raised on three slender legs and tapers towards the everted The decorative band on this rare ding may be a unique variation of
rim and is cast with a band of plain, vertically arranged "quills" reserved quills, the quills enlarged and given prominence against the large
on a leiwen ground filled with black matrix. One side of the interior is scrolls of the leiwen ground heightened with black matrix. The shape
cast with a five-character inscription reading Bo X zuo bao yi, that may of the vessel is similar to a ding from a tomb at Shaanxi Chang'an
be translated, 'Bo X made this precious vessel'. Puducun, dated Middle Western Zhou, illustrated by Jessica Rawson,
9º in. (23.6 cm.) high Western Zhou Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB,
The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 269,
fig. 14.6.
$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1992.
西周中期 青銅羽紋鼎
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