A GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING
A GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

细节
A GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The thin-walled globular body raised on three tall legs and set with a pair of vertically slit upright handles of rectangular section on the shoulder just below the rim, the domed cover applied with three, thin scrolls which act as supports when the cover is inverted, the exterior gilded
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) across handles, box
来源
Christie's, New York, 3 June 1993, lot 132.
Chen Chi Collection, Tokyo.

拍品专文

Compare the very similar vessel excavated from the Western Han tomb no. 6 at Yuci, Shanxi province, illustrated in Wenwu 1974:12, p. 70, fig. 15.