WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC

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A VERY RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three tapering columnar legs, the swelling body finely cast near the top with a narrow band of six low-relief stylised kui dragons, below a pair of upright loop handles rising from the everted rim, with a twelve-character pictogram cast on the side of the interior, with a pale green patina and patches of malachite encrustation
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high, box

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An American Midwestern Estate, circa 1960s, sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2007, lot 529

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The pictogram may be translated as:
Bo Jiang awarded Cong strings of cowrie shells;
Cong used them to make this precious ding vessel.