Lot 1504
1504
A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS, LIDING
A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS, LIDING
A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS, LIDING
A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS, LIDING
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A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS, LIDING

MID-SHANG DYNASTY, 14TH-13TH CENTURY BC

Details
A PAIR OF UNUSUAL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS, LIDING
MID-SHANG DYNASTY, 14TH-13TH CENTURY BC
The exterior of each tri-lobed vessel is cast below the rim with a narrow band of scrolls that taper in a diagonal from a central "eye," all between two rows of circles.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, cloth boxes
Provenance
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1991.

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Lot Essay


These liding with their unusual decorative bands are similar to a liding of similar height (19.5 cm.) illustrated in Shang and Zhou Bronzes from Shaanxi Province, Beijing, 1979, p. 74, pl. 71. Similar bands can also be seen above and below a taotie band on the sides of a fangding illustrated by Bernhard Karlgren in "Marginalia on Some Bronze Albums," BMFEA, No. 32, Stockholm, 1960, PL. 44b,

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