A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The legs cast with double bow-string bands below taotie masks centered by prominent notched flanges with projecting tips, positioned below further flanges on the upper body that separate three taotie masks in a band below the everted rim from which rise two bail handles, with a single-character inscription, "de", cast below the rim on the interior, with black inlay and mottled milky-green patina
7½ in. (19 cm.) high, box

來源

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 5 March 1987.

出版

Karlgren, "Marginalia on Some Bronze Albums", BMFEA 31, 1959, pl. 13.

展覽

Min Chiu Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1985, no. 219.
Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, no. 21.
The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, no. 3.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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The one-character inscription consists of a hand holding a cowrie shell to the left of two angular lines, and may be read as "de" (to obtain or hold).

This ding is unusual in the type of taotie band cast below the rim. Not only is it cast in intaglio, but the masks are formed by the elongated scroll-filled bodies of kui dragons. Compare the related ding of similar profile, with similar notched flanges incorporated into the band of taotie masks formed by pairs of compact dragons cast in low relief below the rim and at the top of the legs, excavated from a Western Zhou tomb in Lingtai county, Gansu province, illustrated in Kaogu, 1976:1, pp. 39-48, pl. 6:4. Another very similar to the excavated ding is illustrated by B. Karlgren, "Marginalia on Some Bronze Albums", BMFEA 31, 1959, pp. 289-331, pl. 19a.