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SESSION I
(LOTS 1001-1120)

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION PROVENANCE

1001 Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19-20 February 1958, lot 251.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by decent within the family.
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
LITERATURE
The body is raised on three slender columnar legs and is decorated with
slightly raised triangles fat-cast with stylized taotie masks pendent from a R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, (slide lecture), Intercultural Arts
band of pairs of cicadas divided by either a narrow fange or a seam, all of the Press, New York, 1968.
pairs, except for one, facing in the same direction, below a pair of bail handles Barnard and Cheung, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in
that rises from the rim. An inscription that consists of the character zi (son) Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, 1978,
above a bottle-horned mask, which may represent the character long (dragon), 1243 (inscription only).
is cast on a small, irregular raised patch of metal in the bottom of the interior. R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The
The vessel has a dark grey patina and mottled milky-green encrustation. Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 460-61, no. 84.
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
商 青銅蟬紋小鼎
$20,000-30,000

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