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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL AND
COVER, DING
Warring states period, 5th/4th century B.C. Provenance
Of compressed spherical form, the rounded sides set with opposing Property from a Private American collection
high relief taotie handles suspending loose rings, the three waisted
short tubular legs smoothly emerging from the base, interrupting a For similar examples, see one in the collection of the Shanghai
short foot ring encircling the flat foot, the sides of the body and cover Museum illustrated in Chen Peifen, Xia Shang Zhou qingtongqi yanjiu,
each cast with three concentric bands of lozenge motifs and angular vol. 6, Eastern Zhou, Shanghai, 2004, p. 406, no. 610; another dated
scrolls, the fitted domed cover additionally cast with three evenly- to the early 5th century BC, from Zhangzi county in Shanxi, illustrated
spaced recumbent oxen decorated with stamped medallions, the in Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler
surfaces with malachite and cuprite patination. Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, p. 157, fig. 19.2.;
7in (17.8cm) high and one sold at Christie’s, New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1250.

$18,000 - 25,000
戰國 公元前五/四世紀 青銅饕餮活環耳三犧蓋鼎

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