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A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
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A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC

已结束2018年9月14日

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A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
The deep body is raised on three columnar legs and is decorated around the sides with leiwen-filled triangles pendent from a band of birds alternating with raised whorl bosses, all reserved on a leiwen ground and below a pair of bail handles that rise from the rim. A two-character clan sign, ya Bi, is cast in the center of the interior. The bronze has an attractive olive-green patina with some minor encrustation and traces of black inlay in the recessed areas. Together with a line drawing of the present lot by Hongwei Dong.
6 ¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

C.T. Loo & Co., New York.
Christie's New York, 10 December 1987, lot 2.
Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 325.

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The clan sign consists of a ya cruciform shape and the name Bi. In the Shang dynasty, clans with the ya added to their clan names are believed to be those that were conferred with the title of Marquis. The same clan sign can be found on a massive ding vessel and five nao bells from the Fu Hao tomb, illustrated in Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang, Beijing, 1980, p. 41, fig. 28 and pl. LXII (1), respectively. According to archaeologists, ibid, p. 234, "those bronzes bearing ya Bi and ya Qi clan signs (found in the Fu Hao tomb) are probably tributes from local polities and clans". The close connection between the ya Bi clan and the Shang royal family as seen by these tributes, and the massive size of ya Bi ding found in the Fuhao tomb demonstrate the power and wealth of the ya Bi clan.