Lot Essay
A similar dui from the Fogg Art Museum is illustrated by Christien Deydier, Chinese Bronzes, p.226, fig.71; compare also the example in the Shanghai Museum of Art, illustrated by Ma Chengyuan, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, pl.72; the bowl without its cover in Alt Chinesische Bronzen; and the example excavated at Tang Shan, Hebei, included by William Watson in Ancient Chinese Bronzes, pl.65b. For related decoration and similar loop handles on different forms, cf. the fang hu illustrated in colour in The Great Bronze Age of China, Catalogue, no.73, pp.282-283, and the dou, no.74, p.284; cf. also the ding and wine vessel in B.M.F.E.A., Stockholm, pl.XIa and b