EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LIDING
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three tapering columnar supports positioned beneath each lobe cast with a large taotie mask with rounded eyes and flanked by descending dragons reserved on a leiwen ground below a narrow scroll band, with a pair of bail handles rising from the rim, with dark brown patina, a three-character inscription on the side of the interior
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired 6 February 1985.

Lot Essay

A number of similar liding have been published, including one by B. Karlgren and J. Wirgin in Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessén Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1969, pp. 36-7, no. 2; one by W.P. Yetts, The Cull Chinese Bronzes, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1939, pl. II; one in Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, p. 39, no. 11; and one illustrated by J.E. Kidder, Early Chinese Bronzes in the City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1956, pl. 8.

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