A bronze tripod ritual food vessel (ding) and cover. North-central China. Eastern Zhou/late Spring and Autumn period, early to mid-5th century BC - image-1

Lot 646 Dα

A bronze tripod ritual food vessel (ding) and cover. North-central China. Eastern Zhou/late Spring and Autumn period, early to mid-5th century BC

Auction 1136 - overview Cologne
08.06.2019, 13:00 - Chinese Art
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.728 € (incl. premium)
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A bronze tripod ritual food vessel (ding) and cover. North-central China. Eastern Zhou/late Spring and Autumn period, early to mid-5th century BC

The undecorated basin stands on three legs with two curved inverted U-shaped handles of rectangular cross-section, the domed cover with three ring handles, each accented by a flat knob at the top. Small restoration to the cover.
Height 20.3 cm; diameter across the handles 26.3 cm

Collection Hugo Vedder (1926-2006) and Gerda Vedder (1932-2019)

Hugo Vedder was the owner of a sophisticated furniture store in Dusseldorf. The company was founded in 1899 by his father in Lüdinghausen in Westphalia, where furniture was produced in the most careful manual work. In the 1960s, Hugo Vedder sold high quality furniture and interiors in the Danish style. While his wife Gerda (1932-2019) collected Art Nouveau ceramics and Meissen porcelain, Hugo Vedder took a liking to East Asian glazes and vessel shapes.

東周 青銅蓋鼎
來源：德國呂丁格豪森 Hugo和Gerda Vedder私人收藏

Provenance

Collection Hugo Vedder (1926-2006) and Gerda Vedder (1932-2019), Lüdinghausen, Germany