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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE BRONZE RITUAL RECTANGULAR WINE VESSEL PROVENANCE
AND COVER, FANGYI Ofered Sotheby’s London, 12 June 1990, lot 7.
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC Michael Goedhuis Ltd., New York, 1998.
The vessel of tapering rectangular shape is fnely fat-cast on each side with LITERATURE
a large taotie mask between a pair of birds confronted on a ‘forehead shield’ Liu Yu and Lu Yan, Jinchu yinzhou jinwen jilu (Compilation of Recently
taotie above and a pair of addorsed dragons below, all reserved on a leiwen Discovered Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions), Beijing, 2002, no. 988.
ground. The cover is decorated with an inverted taotie mask on each side Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions
below the faceted fnial. Both the interior of the vessel and the cover are cast from Sotheby’s and Christie’s, Shanghai, 2007, no. 320.
with a single clan sign, reading ding. There are traces of black inlay in the Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng
recesses that contrasts with the mottled milky-green and grey patina. (Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang
and Zhou Dynasties), Shanghai, 2012, vol. 24, p. 337, no. 13459.
9Ω in. (24 cm.) high
商晚期 鼎方彜
$800,000-1,200,000

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