CHINE, DYNASTIE SHANG, XIIÈME-XIÈME SIÈCLE AVANT J.-C.

Details

RÉCIPIENT TRIPODE RITUEL ARCHAÏQUE EN BRONZE, DING
CHINE, DYNASTIE SHANG, XIIÈME-XIÈME SIÈCLE AVANT J.-C.
Hauteur : 19,5 cm. (7 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Sydney L. Moss, London, 30 June 1954.

Literature

The Antique Dealers Fair and Exhibition Handbook, Grosvenor House, London, 1954, p. 19.

Further details

A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
CHINA, SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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Lot Essay

The present lot may be compared to the bronze ding (23.5 cm high.) of similar proportions sold at Christie's New York, 23 March 2023, lot 801, decorated with a related band of whorls and kui dragons below the mouth rim; and a bronze ding of smaller size (15 cm. high) from a Shang dynasty tomb in Guojiazhuang, Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Bronzes), Beijing, 1997, vol. 2, Shang (II), no. 27. A similar band of whorls and kui dragons can also be found on an early Western Zhou dynasty food vessel, yu, sold at Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 904.

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