LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep body is raised on three columnar legs and is cast with a band of circular bosses alternating with kui dragons below the everted rim set with a pair of bail handles. The patina is of mottled olive-green color with areas of malachite encrustation on the interior.
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Caroline B. Carter Collection.
Estate of Caroline B. Carter; Sotheby's New York, 29 November 1993, lot 177.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4637.

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Lot Essay

A bronze ding of smaller size (15 cm. high), but of similar proportions and with a similar band of whorls and kui dragons below the mouth rim, from a Shang dynasty tomb in Guojiazhuang, Anyang, Henan province, is illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Bronzes), Beijing, 1997, vol. 2, Shang (II), no. 27. A similar band of whorls and very similarly rendered kui dragons can also be found on a late Shang gui sold at Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 904, and again at Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2021, lot 192.

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