Live Auction 18823Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
Lot 1508 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION

A RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING

MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC

Closed25 September 2020

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A RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY BC
The body is raised on three slender legs and tapers towards the everted rim and is cast with a band of plain, vertically arranged "quills" reserved on a leiwen ground filled with black matrix. One side of the interior is cast with a five-character inscription reading Bo X zuo bao yi, that may be translated, 'Bo X made this precious vessel'.
9 ¼ in. (23.6 cm.) high

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1992.

Specialist note


The decorative band on this rare ding may be a unique variation of quills, the quills enlarged and given prominence against the large scrolls of the leiwen ground heightened with black matrix. The shape of the vessel is similar to a ding from a tomb at Shaanxi Chang'an Puducun, dated Middle Western Zhou, illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 269, fig. 14.6.