A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, LIDING

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 11TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, LIDING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 11TH CENTURY BC
The body divided into three lobes decorated with taotie masks with detached elements cast in relief on a leiwen ground, below a band of alternating cicadas and whorl-decorated roundels, with a single character below the rim on the interior, grey and mottled milky-green patina
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, box

來源

Collection de Madame A...; Etienne Ader and A. and G. Portier, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 12 March 1962, no. 27.
K. Kitazawa Collection, Tokyo.
Kochukyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 26 September 1984.

展覽

Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, no.18.
The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, no. 4.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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The single graph is formed like an inverted "U" with a curved tail rising from the top.
A similar liding, dated to the 11th century BC, in the British Museum, is illustrated by W. Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, pl. 14b; and another is illustrated by B. Karlgren, "New Studies on Chinese Bronzes", BMFEA 9, 1937, pl. X, no. 248. Unlike the present liding, these two vessels have intaglio decoration cast on the legs. A similar liding in the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, illustrated by R. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, p. 97, fig. 110, appears to not have flanges bisecting the taotie masks.