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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
Details
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
The body is raised on three slender columnar legs and is decorated with slightly raised triangles flat-cast with stylized taotie masks pendent from a band of pairs of cicadas divided by either a narrow flange or a seam, all of the pairs, except for one, facing in the same direction, below a pair of bail handles that rises from the rim. An inscription that consists of the character zi (son) above a bottle-horned mask, which may represent the character long (dragon), is cast on a small, irregular raised patch of metal in the bottom of the interior. The vessel has a dark grey patina and mottled milky-green encrustation.
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
The body is raised on three slender columnar legs and is decorated with slightly raised triangles flat-cast with stylized taotie masks pendent from a band of pairs of cicadas divided by either a narrow flange or a seam, all of the pairs, except for one, facing in the same direction, below a pair of bail handles that rises from the rim. An inscription that consists of the character zi (son) above a bottle-horned mask, which may represent the character long (dragon), is cast on a small, irregular raised patch of metal in the bottom of the interior. The vessel has a dark grey patina and mottled milky-green encrustation.
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19-20 February 1958, lot 251.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by decent within the family.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by decent within the family.
Literature
R. Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, (slide lecture), Intercultural Arts Press, New York, 1968.
Barnard and Cheung, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, 1243 (inscription only).
R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 460-61, no. 84.
Barnard and Cheung, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, 1243 (inscription only).
R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 460-61, no. 84.