Lot 13
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RECIPIENT TRIPODE EN BRONZE, DING
RECIPIENT TRIPODE EN BRONZE, DING
RECIPIENT TRIPODE EN BRONZE, DING
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RECIPIENT TRIPODE EN BRONZE, DING

CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE SHANG - DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE DES ZHOU DE L'OUEST (XIIEME-VIIIEME SIECLE AV. JC.)

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RECIPIENT TRIPODE EN BRONZE, DING
CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE SHANG - DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE DES ZHOU DE L'OUEST (XIIEME-VIIIEME SIECLE AV. JC.)
Il repose sur trois pieds cylindriques. Le corps est très délicatement sculpté d'une bande de masques de taotie entrecoupés de fines arêtes. Deux anses en forme de U inversés rythment le bord. Le bronze est enrichi d'une patine vert et gris foncé.
Hauteur: 21,7 cm. (8 ½ in.)
Provenance
The Hurukawa Collection, before 11 April 1969.
With Seikodo, Tokyo, Japan, before June 1982.
An important private European collection.
Further details
A BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL, DING
CHINA, LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (12TH-8TH CENTURY BC)

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Lot Essay

A bronze ding of comparable size with an undecorated body and similar taotie scroll decoration in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, is illustrated by J. Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C., 1990, vol. IIB, p. 269, fig. 14.4.

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