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A RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, DING
Early Western Zhou Dynasty
The deep U-shaped body supported on three columnar legs, the flat
everted rim set with two small upright loop handles above a band
of kui dragons encircling the vessel beneath the rim on a ground of
leiwen, the remainder of the body cast with a diagonal grid, each
diamond-shaped unit defined by an individual leiwen border and with a
central circle, a single pictogram cast to the well, the interior cast with
a two-character inscription reading Yiran 乙冉, the sage-green patina
with patches of malachite encrustations.
19.6cm (7 6/8in) high.
£70,000 - 120,000
CNY630,000 - 1,100,000
西周早期 青銅乳釘雷紋乙冉鼎

Provenance: 來源：
Guggenheim 3 (label) Guggenheim 3（標籤）
Sotheby’s London, 13 December 1963, lot 171 倫敦蘇富比，1963年12月13日，拍品編號171
Alan Hartman, New York 紐約古董商Alan Hartman
Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 1997, lot 2 紐約蘇富比，1997年3月19日，拍品編號2
An important European private collection 歐洲重要私人收藏

Published and Illustrated: 出版著錄：
C.Deydier, Chinese Bronzes, pl.14; in Yanku fijin tulu, vo.I, pl.6. 戴克誠，《Chinese Bronzes》，圖版編號14；同《巖窟吉金圖錄》，
卷一，圖版編號6
Published and Exhibited:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China, 展覽著錄：
Los Angeles, 1976, no.6. 洛杉磯藝術博物館，《Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China》，洛杉
磯，1976年，編號6

Lot 21, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ancient
Ritual Bronzes of China, Los Angeles, 1976, no.6.
洛杉磯藝術博物館，《Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China》，
洛杉磯，1976年，編號6

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