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RARE BOL TRIPODE RITUEL EN BRONZE, LI
CHINE, DYNASTIE DES ZHOU
OCCIDENTAUX, EPOQUE DES PRINTEMPS
ET AUTOMNES (770-476 AV. JC)
Reposant sur trois pieds coniques, l’épaulement 此拍品附有測試報告
est orné d’une bande de dragons stylisés. La
bordure porte une inscription à huit caractères: PROVENANCE
‘NI BO ‘X’ mère a moulé ce li sacrifciel’. With Gisèle Cröes, 23 April 1985.
Hauteur: 16,5 cm. (6Ω in.), boîte Several related examples of this type have been
published. See Shang Chou Dynasty Bronze V, Li
€20,000-25,000 $24,000-29,000
£18,000-22,000 Vessels, vol. 5, Taipei, 1990, for three excavated li
with similar stylized scroll beneath an everted rim.
The frst, illustrated p. 143, no. 155, was excavated
A RARE BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LI
in Shandong province in 1984; another example
CHINA, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SPRING
AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC) with a cover was also excavated in Shandong in
1977, and is illustrated on p. 144, no. 158; the third,
春秋時期 銅三足銘文鬲鼎 「郳伯X母鑄其羞鬲」 excavated in Jiangsu province in 1977, is illustrated
on p. 144, no. 157.
來源：於1985年4月23日購自比利時古董商 A technical examination report is available upon
Gisèle Cröes request.
(inscription on the rim )
盒盖内忍丘学人跋

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