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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, HU
DING Han Dynasty
Warring States The vessel of globular shape rising from a cylindrical foot to a waisted
The vessel of globular form, supported by three cabriole legs, flanked neck and flaring mouth, unadorned save for a pair of applied taotie
at the shoulder by upright rectangular loop handles, decorated masks supporting loose-ring handles at the shoulder and three raised
throughout with friezes of interlocking zoomorphic geometric spirals bands around the body, shoulder and mouth rim, the circular domed
and stylised dragons, the patterns repeated on the domed cover cover with four small snake-shaped knobs, the surface with patches of
surmounted by a flaring knob centred around a coiled , the bronze with green encrustation.
a green patina and patches of malachite encrustration. 48cm (19in) high (2).
25cm (9 7/8in) wide (2).
£12,000 - 15,000 £10,000 - 15,000
CNY110,000 - 130,000 CNY89,000 - 130,000

戰國 青銅夔龍紋蓋鼎 漢 青銅饕餮紋蓋壺

Provenance: a European private collection Provenance: a European private collection

來源： 歐洲私人收藏 來源： 歐洲私人收藏

A similar but larger ding in the Avery Brundage collection is illustrated Compare with a similarly shaped bronze vessel and cover, hu, Western
in R.L.Lefebvre d’Argencé, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Berkeley, 1966, Han dynasty, illustrated in The Great Bronze Age of China, New York,
pl.XXXIX; a similar but larger bronze ding vessel, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 1980, p.299, fig.96.
was sold at Christie’s New York, 22 April 1999, lot 191.

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