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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC
The vessel with hemispherical body raised on three cabriole legs surmounted by taotie masks, has a pair of
upright handles decorated with S-shaped dragons, and is fat-cast around the sides with wide and narrow
bands of scroll-flled, interlaced dragon pattern separated by a narrow rope-twist border and repeated on
the cover where they are separated by a plain border applied with three recumbent bovines, the center with
a loose ring handle.
11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) across handles
$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in New York in 1991.
This ding, as well as the recumbent bufaloes on the cover, are very similar to a ding and cover in the
Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, included in the exhibition Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Stanford
University Museum, 21 February - 28 March 1958, no. 97. The style of decoration on both of these
vessels is known as liyu, named after the village of Liyu in Shanxi province, where a cache of bronze
vessels was discovered in 1923.
春秋晚期 青銅交龍紋蓋鼎

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