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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION LITERATURE
1004 Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, And Australasian
Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 1352 (inscription only).
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH CENTURY BC Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, no. 65
The full, rounded body is raised on three columnar legs and is decorated with (inscription only).
a band of blades cast in low, rounded relief with large cicadas pendent from a Yinzhou jinwen jicheng (Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions),
band comprised of three taotie masks, each centered by a fange and fanked The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing,
by outward-facing bottle-horn dragons that are in turn confronted on further 1984, no. 1011 (inscription only).
fanges, all reserved on leiwen grounds. The decoration has black inlay that R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The
contrasts with the milky-green patina. A single graph of a hand holding a ge Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 452-57, no. 82.
halberd against the neck of a human fgure is cast on the wall of the interior. Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Compendium
9æ in. (24.8 cm.) high of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties),
Shanghai, 2012, vol. 1, p. 181, no. 222.
$10,000-15,000
The same inscription is found on two axes and a ge blade in conjunction
PROVENANCE with a pictograph of a xian vessel cast on the opposite side, all illustrated
by Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, pp.
J. T. Tai & Co., New York. 454-6: fg. 82.1, an axe in the Winthrop Collection, Fogg Art Museum, fg.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections. 82.2, an axe in the Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, and fg. 82.3, a ge
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family. blade. The author goes on to note that the two graphs have been interpreted
as the names of a prince of Wu Ding’s reign, which implies a date near the
(inscription) beginning of the twelfth century.
Four ding with very similar decoration in the main band are illustrated in
Yinxu fu Hao mu (Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang), Beijing, 1980, pl. VI
1 (no. 821) and 2 (no. 756), and pl. VII 1 (no. 814) and 2 (no. 762), the latter two
ding with the addition of pendent blades on the legs.
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