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A RETICULATED BRONZE CIRCULAR STEM DISH, DOU

MIDDLE-LATE WESTERN ZHOU PERIOD (9TH-8TH CENTURY BC)

西周中晚期 青銅鏤空花座豆

The shallow dish is decorated to the exterior with a band of stylised animal-form scrolls, supported on a
similarly-decorated, tall, cylindrical, spreading foot. The surface has a mottled brownish-green patina.

9¬ in. (24.4 cm.) diam.

£6,000-8,000 $9,400-12,000
€8,300-11,000

PROVENANCE

From an important private European collection, acquired prior to 11 June 1982.

Compare with the mid Western Zhou Dou found in the Zhuangbai bronze pit, Shaanxi province. illustrated
by J. Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington DC, 1990,
vol. IIA, p. 106, which features similar openwork on the foot.

Another late Western Zhou example in Qishan County Museum, China is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu
quanji (Collected Works of the Fine Arts of China), Beijing, 1985, vol. 4, pp. 79 and 211.

See an openwork based dou from Hubei Jingshan Songhequ, illustrated in J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual
Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1995, p.181. According to So, this type of dou
with shallow, straight vertical-sided bowl and broad openwork stem may have developed alongside wood-
core lacquer dou, around the 10th or 9th century BC. See a similar dou with banded openwork base in
the Hubei Museum collection, illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan, qingtong juan,Hong Kong,
1994 , p. 186, no. 661.

來源:
重要歐洲私人珍藏，於1982年6月11日前購入

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