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Lot Essay
Bells (zhong) of this type, with a large loop handle formed by the addorsed bodies of dragons or birds, are known as bo. Like yong zhong, bo zhong were made for use in graduated sets, and according to J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1995, p. 381, bo zhong and niu zhong appear to have displaced the graduated set of yong zhong after the 5th century BC.
A very similar bo zhong of smaller size (6 in.) in the Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford, is illustrated by W. Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962, pl. 69a. A set of nineteen bo zhong of graduated sizes cast with very similar designs and of similar proportions from the tomb of Zhao Qing, a high-ranking noble of the Jin State, in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan, Shaanxi province, is now in the Shaanxi Archaeological Institute. See Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 8 - Dong Zhou (2), Beijing, 1995, pp. 98-103, nos. 111-4. Compare, also, a bell of this type, but of larger size (23.5 cm.) and lacking decoration in the vertical plain, sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1528.
A very similar bo zhong of smaller size (6 in.) in the Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford, is illustrated by W. Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962, pl. 69a. A set of nineteen bo zhong of graduated sizes cast with very similar designs and of similar proportions from the tomb of Zhao Qing, a high-ranking noble of the Jin State, in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan, Shaanxi province, is now in the Shaanxi Archaeological Institute. See Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 8 - Dong Zhou (2), Beijing, 1995, pp. 98-103, nos. 111-4. Compare, also, a bell of this type, but of larger size (23.5 cm.) and lacking decoration in the vertical plain, sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1528.