A FINE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING, cast with two upright arched loop handles at the rim, the sides with a wide band of six vertical flanges dividing taotie masks on a leiwen ground on the exterior and an impressed mark below the rim in the interior, supported on three cylindrical feet, the decoration with much black infill remaining, all under a grey and pale green patina with areas of malachite and earth encrustation (some repair),

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A FINE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING, cast with two upright arched loop handles at the rim, the sides with a wide band of six vertical flanges dividing taotie masks on a leiwen ground on the exterior and an impressed mark below the rim in the interior, supported on three cylindrical feet, the decoration with much black infill remaining, all under a grey and pale green patina with areas of malachite and earth encrustation (some repair),

late Shang Dynasty
24.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Loehr, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, no.20, p.56; the example from the Cunliffe Collection, illustrated by Messrs. Bluett & Sons, Early Chinese Art, Exhibition, Catalogue, pl.IV, no.4; the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition, Catalogue, 1938, p.2, no.20; and Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, pl.15A

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