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PROPERTY FROM THE MACLEAN COLLECTION, ILLINOIS
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A RARE BRONZE RITUAL RECTANGULAR FOOD VESSEL, FANGDING
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
The deep body of rectangular form is raised on four columnar legs cast in intaglio with triangles
pendent from a scroll band. The body is cast in relief on each side with a taotie mask below a band of
kui dragons, all reserved on leiwen grounds and centered by notched fanges which are repeated at the
corners, with a pair of bail handles rising from the rim. The bronze has a dark grey and mottled green
patina. Together with two line drawings of the present lot by Hongwei Dong.
8Ω in. (21.7 cm.) high

$400,000-600,000

PROVENANCE
Wui Po Kok, Hong Kong, 1999.
LITERATURE
R. A. Pegg and Lidong Zhang, The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010,
pp. 74-7, no. 15.
西周早期 青銅饕餮紋方鼎

Accompanying line drawing by Hongwei Dong.

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