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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.
(another view)
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