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PROPERTY FROM THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER FOUNDATION
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A VERY RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, LI EXHIBITED
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, 1999 - 2009.
The well-cast tripod vessel of compressed form is decorated in high relief LITERATURE
on each lobe with a large taotie mask with bufalo horns below the everted B. Karlgren, ‘New Studies on Chinese Bronzes’, Bulletin of the Museum
rim set with a pair of bail handles. A four-character inscription is cast on the of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 9, Stockholm, 1937, pp.1-117, pl. 7, no. 163.
side of the interior reading rui shi zuo li. The bronze has a silver-grey and D. Lion-Goldschmidt and Jean-Claude Moreau-Gobard, Chinese Art:
golden patina with light malachite encrustation, and there are remains of Bronzes, Jades, Sculpture, Ceramics, New York, 1966, p. 48, no. 20.
black inlay in the recessed areas of the decoration. (Revised English edition 1980)
7º in. (18 cm.) across handles Minao Hayashi, In Shu seidoki soran (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes),
vol. 1 (plates), Tokyo, 1984, p. 65, li no. 48.
J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
$250,000-350,000
vol. IIB, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 312-15,
no. 25.
PROVENANCE 西周早期 芮史鬲
C.T. Loo & Co., Paris.
Christie’s London, 12 October 1970, lot 105.
J.T. Tai & Co., New York.
Arthur M. Sackler Collection.
The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.

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