A BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, DING

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE TRIPOD RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, DING
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three slender legs, cast in low relief with a band of alternating whorl and 'star' or 'eye and crescent' motifs reserved on a ground of intaglio leiwen retaining some black inlay, with a pair of bail handles rising from the rim, areas of heavy encrustation
9 in. (23 cm.) high
Provenance
S. & G. Gump Co., San Francisco.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
The Cranbrook Collection: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 2-5 May 1972, lot 436.
Mrs. Manuel Gottlieb Collection; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20-21 November 1973, lot 61.
Literature
J. Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1990, pp. 260-1, no. 12.

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