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24 janvier 2020

A rare archaic bronze ritual tripod vessel and cover (ding), Middle Western Zhou Dynasty, 9th century BC

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Lot 94. A rare archaic bronze ritual tripod vessel and cover (ding), Middle Western Zhou Dynasty, 9th century BC. Height 11 in., 27.9 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the body a deep U-shape rising to a slightly inverted neck, decorated with a single flat cast band of angular S-scrolls of dragon head profiles with a large pair of loop handles of rectangular section set to each side, the cover sharply angled between the top and sides surmounted by three crested flat-sided birds and a simple ring handle in the center, a silvery-gray patina with patches of green encrustation, wood stand, Japanese wood box (4).

Property from The Masaki Museum of Art.

Provenance: Japanese Collection, acquired before the 1960s.

Note: While covered ding are not uncommon in the Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States and Han periods, examples from the Western Zhou dynasty are rare.  For a further discussion on this type of covered ding and illustrations of related forms see Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Washington D.C, 1990, pp. 271-277, fig. 15.5 and no. 16.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 11 september 2012

Posté par Alain Truong à 16:43 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]
Tags: Ding,  Archaic Bronze,  Middle Western Zhou dynasty,  9th century BC,  ritual tripod vessel and cover

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