A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, ZHU DING LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The deep, rounded body is raised on three columnar supports cast with blades, and is cast around the sides with a band of blades centred by cicadas on a leiwen ground pendent from a band of pairs of dragons confronted on notched flanges and also on a leiwen ground. A pair of bail handles rises from the rim. A single graph, zhu, is cast below the rim on the interior. The patina is of mottled brownishgrey and milky green colour. 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box Provenance Yao Jinyuan (1823-1890) Sold at Sotheby's London, 30 March 1978, lot 42 Ikeda Kobijitsu, Tokyo, Japan, June 1998 A Japanese private collection Sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2014, lot 2036
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, ZHU DING LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The deep, rounded body is raised on three columnar supports cast with blades, and is cast around the sides with a band of blades centred by cicadas on a leiwen ground pendent from a band of pairs of dragons confronted on notched flanges and also on a leiwen ground. A pair of bail handles rises from the rim. A single graph, zhu, is cast below the rim on the interior. The patina is of mottled brownishgrey and milky green colour. 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box Provenance Yao Jinyuan (1823-1890) Sold at Sotheby's London, 30 March 1978, lot 42 Ikeda Kobijitsu, Tokyo, Japan, June 1998 A Japanese private collection Sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2014, lot 2036
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