Lot 1113
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A MASSIVE RITUAL BRONZE TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
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A MASSIVE RITUAL BRONZE TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING

SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC)

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A MASSIVE RITUAL BRONZE TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC)
The deep, rounded body raised on three tall feet issuing from elaborate stylized taotie masks, cast with three continuous bands of geometric scroll separated by plain and bow-string bands, the thick, everted bail handles cast with a series of scroll patterns in rectangular cartouches
24½ in. (62.3 cm.) across handles
Provenance
Acquired in Japan in the 1960s.
Japanese private collection.

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Lot Essay

Compare the massive ding dated to the Spring and Autumn period excavated in 1988 from Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan, Shaanxi province, and now in the Shaanxi Province Research Institute of Archaeology, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 8 - Dong Zhou (2), Beijing, 1995, pp. 15-6, nos. 16-18. Although of even larger size (104 cm. high) than the present example, the Jinsheng ding shares similar proportions and cast decoration to the present vessel, as well as very similar robust taotie masks set atop each tall waisted leg.

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