LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE STEM BOWL AND COVER, DOU
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC
The rounded bowl raised on a tall slightly waisted stem foot, cast around the sides with two bands of small tight S-scrolls, the wider upper band interrupted by a pair of faceted ring handles, with a similar band on the spreading foot and others encircling the domed cover and on the flared crown, with silvery grey patina and some green encrustation
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Hazama Family Collection.

Lot Essay

A similar dou from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lidow was included in the exhibition, Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 3 February - 26 April 1976, p. 64, no. 40. A comparable example with different decoration on the flared crown is illustrated by J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington DC, 1995, pp. 178-9. no. 24, where the author notes that the dou eventually replaced the gui as a food or grain container in tomb assemblages. In turn, "by the mid-Warring States period the dou had been superseded by the dui in both daily life and burial contexts".

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