Lot 144
144
A RARE BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL VESSEL, DING*
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A RARE BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL VESSEL, DING*

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL VESSEL, DING*
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three tall legs well cast as standing birds with hooked beaks, long trailing tail feathers and clawed feet, the rounded bowl unusually cast in low relief with a band of paired cicadas divided by shallow flanges, the pair of bail handles rising from the flat rim cast in intaglio with linear dragons, with a possibly later-added two-character pictograph cast in the interior, with mottled pale green patina
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
Provenance
C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 21 May 1942.
Literature
Chen Mengjia, Mei diguo zhuyi jielue di woguo Yin Zhou tongqi tulu, The Academia Sinica, Beijing, 1962, A79.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The inscription, ce ce, is possibly later added.
The noted Chinese scholar Chen Mengjia examined this ding along with the other three bronzes from the Doris Duke Collection in this sale, (lots 145, 148 and 150) while he was in the United States from 1944 to 1947. Like the others, it was included in his comprehensive survey of 845 Chinese ritual bronzes in Amercian Collections later published in 1962 by The Academia Sinica, Beijing, under the title, Mei diguo zhuyi jielue di woguo Yin Zhou tongqi tulu as no. A79.

This ding is almost identical to one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Chen Peifen, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Shanghai Museum, London, 1995, p. 60, no. 33, and also in Rites et festins de la Chine antique: Bronzes du musée de Shanghai, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 1998, pp. 108-9, no. 22.

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