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A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, DING
Late Shang Dynasty, 12th/11th century BC, inscribed Yu
The deep round body flanked by two upright loop handles and
supported on three cylindrical legs, crisply cast on the sides with three
taotie masks intersected by flanges, each with prominent eyes, upright
horns and small claws, beneath a band of twelve stylised kui dragons
on a leiwen ground, the wall of the interior cast with a pictogram,
the bronze covered with an attractive olive patina with areas of
encrustation, Japanese wood box.
21cm (8 2/8in) high. (2).

£180,000 - 240,000
CNY1,600,000 - 2,200,000

商（公元前十二至十一世紀） 青銅饕餮紋三足鼎
「聿」金文鑄款

Provenance: J.T.Tai & Co., New York
William Bowmore, Australia (1909 - 2008)
Mossgreen, Melbourne, 25 November 2008, lot 762
The Reid Collection

Exhibited:
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2 November 1999 -
1 April 2000, The William Bowmore Collection: The Fine Art of Giving.
90 Masterpieces
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, January 2009 -
February 2018 (on loan)

來源：
紐約古董商戴潤齋先生
澳洲收藏家William Bowmore先生 (1909 - 2008)
2008年11月25日於墨爾本Mossgreen拍賣，拍品762號
Reid 收藏

展覽：
1999年11月2日至2000年4月1日於阿德萊德南澳美術館，
「The William Bowmore Collection: The Fine Art of Giving.
90 Masterpieces」特展展出
2009年1月至2018年2月期間借展予悉尼新南威爾斯美術館

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