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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1991.
AND COVER, DING
The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong.
SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC
The deep, globular body is raised on three tall legs surmounted by stylized EXHIBITED
Tsui Art Foundation, Gems of Chinese Art: Selections of Ceramics and Bronzes,
masks divided by a fange. The sides are fat-cast with bands of interlocking
Hong Kong, 1992, no. 2.
snake motifs, the upper band interrupted by a pair of upright handles also cast
with scrolls. The domed cover is similarly decorated and applied with four
LITERATURE
recumbent bovines below an openwork knob formed by six vertical straps cast Singapore, Tsui Art Foundation and Empress Place Museum,
in the shape of birds biting and grasping an outer ring border. The vessel and Gems of Chinese Art: Selections of Ceramics and Bronzes, 1992.
cover have a milky green patina and azurite encrustation on the interior.
春秋 青銅蟠虺紋臥牛大鼎
19√ in. (50.5 cm.) wide across handles
$40,000-60,000
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