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New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 569

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (DING), LATE SHANG DYNASTY
Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (DING)
LATE SHANG DYNASTY
商末 鼎鼎

the deep U-shaped body supported on three tall cylindrical legs, the everted rim set with two upright loop handles, crisply cast
around the body with a band of three pairs of stylized confronting dragons against a leiwen ground, centered by short vertical
flanges, all above a skirt of pendent triangular lappets enclosing formalized cicadas on leiwen ground, cast to the inside rim with a
single pictogram reading ding, the surface with malachite encrustation, wood stand (2)

銘文：
鼎

Height 8⅝ in., 22 cm

Provenance
Collection of A. F. Glathe.
Collection of William A. Klink (1923-2019), acquired prior to 1947, and thence by descent.

來源
A. F. Glathe 收藏
威廉姆•克林克 (1923-2019) 收藏，得於1947年之前，此後家族傳承

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