CHINE, DYNASTIE SHANG, XIIÈME-XIÈME SIÈCLE AVANT J.-C.

The present lot may be compared to the bronze ding (23.5 cm high.) of similar proportions sold at Christie's New York, 23 March 2023, lot 801, decorated with a related band of whorls and kui dragons below the mouth rim; and a bronze ding of smaller size (15 cm. high) from a Shang dynasty tomb in Guojiazhuang, Anyang, Henan province, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Bronzes), Beijing, 1997, vol. 2, Shang (II), no. 27. A similar band of whorls and kui dragons can also be found on an early Western Zhou dynasty food vessel, yu, sold at Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 904.