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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION For two bronze vessels from the Eastern Zhou period, a ding (6th-
5th century BCE) and a jian (5th Century BCE), each with a form of
3 braided-rope design, see Pope, Gettins, Cahill and Barnard, The Freer
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL AND DOMED Chinese Bronzes, Vol. 1, Catalogue, Washington D.C., 1967, pp 490-
495, pl. 90 and pp. 478-483, pl. 88, respectively.
COVER, DING
Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC)
The rounded sides and shallow domed cover each cast with two For others, also, of a slightly larger and more ornate type, see www.
low-relief bands of braided-rope design, the bands on the ding metmuseum.org, accession no.: 1988.20.6a,b, (ritual tripod cauldron),
divided by a thin raised band of small oval bosses and with upright formerly in the Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection and gifted to
arched handles at the sides cast with a continuation of the braided the Metropolitan Museum, New York in 1988; and another in the Los
rope design, the cover with three upright cylindrical lug handles Angeles County Museum of Art, from the ancient state of Jin in Shanxi
equally spaced on the outer braided-rope band (some encrustation). province is illustrated in www.lacma.org, accession no.: M.74. 103a-b.
12 1/2in (31.7cm) across Both ding also have three cylindrical lugs on the cover.

See others versions of a similar type at auction; Bonhams, San
$4,000 - 6,000 Francisco, 27 June 2017, lot 8096; Lempertz, Cologne, 7-8 June
東周 青銅鼎 2019, lots 646 and 647; Sotheby’s, London, lot 204; and Christie’s,
London, 9 November 2015, lot 9.

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