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801   A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD                          晚ਦǭ安陽時期ǭ公元前十Հ至十一世紀
               VESSEL, DING                                         青銅夔龍圓渦紋鼎
               LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
               The deep body is raised on three columnar legs and is cast with a    Ϝ源
               band of circular bosses alternating with kui dragons below the everted   $BSPMJOF #  $BSUFS Ⅷ藏
               rim set with a pair of bail handles. The patina is of mottled olive-   $BSPMJOF #  $BSUFS舊藏  紐約蘇富比
     年  月  日
 拍品編
               green color with areas of malachite encrustation on the interior.  號
                                                                    藍理捷
 紐約
 編號
               9º in. (23.5 cm.) high
               $80,000-100,000

               PROVENANCE:
               Caroline B. Carter Collection.
               Estate of Caroline B. Carter; Sotheby’s New York, 29 November
               1993, lot 177.
               J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4637.
               A bronze ding of smaller size (15 cm. high), but of similar
               proportions and with a similar band of whorls and kui dragons
               below the mouth rim, from a Shang dynasty tomb in
               Guojiazhuang, Anyang, Henan province, is illustrated in 
               Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Bronzes),
               Beijing, 1997, vol. 2, Shang (II), no. 27. A similar band of whorls
               and very similarly rendered kui dragons can also be found on a late
               Shang gui sold at Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 904,
               and again at Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2021, lot 192.






































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