LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three legs, the vessel is flat cast around the sides with two horizontal bands of flowing and interlocking stylized scroll pattern filled with angular leiwen. The two bands are separated by a narrow raised band repeated at the rim. The upright handles are cast with a pattern of hooked scrolls. Three further bands of stylized scroll form concentric rings on the cover, which is also set with three ring handles cast with rope-twist pattern. The bronze has a mottled grey and milky green patina.
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) across handles

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in the early 1990s.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similar ding and cover illustrated by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1995, pp. 158-59, no. 20. The author ascribes the vessel to North-central China, Shanxi-Henan provinces, and notes that a similar vessel is in the collection of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, and also illustrates, p. 160, fig. 20.1, a very similar ding and cover from Shanxi Tunliu Jiajagou, which is dated early 5th century BC.

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