LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC

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A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC
The globular body is raised on three columnar supports, and is flat- cast around the sides with a band of three taotie masks formed by pairs of dragons with coiled tails confronted on narrow flanges above pendent triangular blades that are slightly raised from the surface. The decoration has black inlay. A pair of bail handles rises from the rim. The vessel has a mottled patina and milky green encrustation.
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, January 1989.

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Lot Essay

Compare the pair of ding of approximately the same size and with similar upper taotie band, but with cicada centering the pendent blades encircling the body, illustrated in Royal Ontario Museum, The T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art, Toronto, 1986, no. 12.

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