A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING

EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, LATE 8TH-EARLY 7TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, LATE 8TH-EARLY 7TH CENTURY BC
Raised on three hollow legs splayed at the bottom and with core-filled V-shaped open backs, each cast at the top with a bird scroll repeated as a freize above a band of scale pattern on the sides below the everted rim, from which rise the pair of bail handles cast with further scroll pattern, with heavy green and earth encrustation
7 in. (17.8 cm.) across handles

Provenance

European private collection.
Acquired in Palm Springs, California, 1997.

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Lot Essay

A very similar ding of approximately the same size is illustrated by Jenny So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, pp. 102-3, no. 6, where it is dated Eastern Zhou, early Spring and Autumn period, late 8th-early 7th century BC.

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