A SUPERBLY CAST BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LIDING LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The tri-lobed body is raised on three columnar supports cast in intaglio and positioned below the lobes which are finely cast with taotie masks formed by two dragons with large heads and 'toothed' jaws shown in profile on a fine leiwen ground and confronted on notched flanges repeated between the three pairs of dragons confronted on short flanges above. A pair of bail handles rises from the slightly inward-canted rim. A graph is cast on the interior below the rim. The patina is of reddish-brown colour, and there is milky green encrustation. 8½ in. (21.7 cm.) high Provenance C. T. Loo (1881-1957), no. 40.45 Mrs G. M.G. Forman, Buffalo, New York Akron Art Museum, Ohio Sold at Christie's New York, 6 November 1980, lot 154 Eskenazi, London, 1985 The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection Eskenazi, London, 1993 Important Chinese Archaic Bronzes from a Distinguished Private Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2013, lot 1103
A SUPERBLY CAST BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LIDING LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The tri-lobed body is raised on three columnar supports cast in intaglio and positioned below the lobes which are finely cast with taotie masks formed by two dragons with large heads and 'toothed' jaws shown in profile on a fine leiwen ground and confronted on notched flanges repeated between the three pairs of dragons confronted on short flanges above. A pair of bail handles rises from the slightly inward-canted rim. A graph is cast on the interior below the rim. The patina is of reddish-brown colour, and there is milky green encrustation. 8½ in. (21.7 cm.) high Provenance C. T. Loo (1881-1957), no. 40.45 Mrs G. M.G. Forman, Buffalo, New York Akron Art Museum, Ohio Sold at Christie's New York, 6 November 1980, lot 154 Eskenazi, London, 1985 The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection Eskenazi, London, 1993 Important Chinese Archaic Bronzes from a Distinguished Private Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2013, lot 1103
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