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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL
AND COVER, DING Provenance:
Warring States period, 5th/4th century B.C. An American private collection, by repute
Of compressed spherical form, the rounded sides set with opposing
high relief taotie handles suspending loose rings, the three waisted For similar examples, see one in the collection of the Shanghai
short tubular legs smoothly emerging from the base, interrupting a Museum illustrated by Chen Peifen, Xia Shang Zhou qingtongqi yanjiu,
short foot ring encircling the flat foot, the sides of the body and cover vol. 6, Eastern Zhou, Shanghai, 2004, p. 406, no. 610; another dated
each cast with three concentric bands of lozenge motifs and angular to the early 5th century BC, from Zhangzi County in Shanxi province,
scrolls, the fitted domed cover additionally cast with three evenly- is illustrated by Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur
spaced recumbent oxen decorated with stamped medallions, the M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1995, p. 157, fig. 19.2.; and see
surfaces with malachite and cuprite patination. also one which was sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot
7in (17.8cm) high 1250.

$10,000 - 15,000
戰國 公元前五/四世紀 青銅饕餮活環耳三犧蓋鼎

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