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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION See a similar example illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Chinese
Bronzes, Art and Ritual, British Museum, London, 1987, pp. 34-35,
2 fig. 12d, in a line drawing depicting twenty-one vessels from a hoard
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE CIRCULAR RETICULATED STEM of one-hundred and three bronzes buried at Zhuangbai, a village in
DISH, DOU Fufeng Xian at the heart of the Zhouyuan area. Also compare with
Mid-late Western Zhou Dynasty (9th-8th Century BC) a dou from Hubei province with a reticulated stem illustrated by
The circular dish with short vertical sides which are cast with Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler
alternately large and small stylized-D-shaped raised panels, Collections, New York, 1995, p.181. The author notes that this type
supported on a gently-waisted reticulated stem which forms of dou with shallow, straight vertical-sided bowl and broad openwork
the foot, pierced with a design of stylized bird and animal forms stem may have developed alongside wood-core lacquer dou, around
in two bands, all under a silvery-grey-green patina. the 10th or 9th century BC. Another late Western Zhou example in
9in (22.8cm) across Qishan County Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji
(Collected Works of the Fine Arts of China), Beijing, 1985, vol. 4, pp.
$1,800 - 2,500 79 and 211. See also another dou in the Hubei Museum collection
illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan, qingtong juan, Hong
西周中晚期 青銅豆 Kong, 1994 , p. 186, no. 661.

For a similar dou, see Christie’s, London, ‘Status and Ritual: Archaic
Chinese Bronzes from an Important Private European Collection’,
9 November 2015, lot 17

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