A very large bronze tripod ritual food vessel (ding) and cover. North-central China, Shanxi/Henan provinces. Eastern Zhou/late Spring and Autumn period, early 5th century BC
The basin stands on three undecorated legs with two inverted U-shaped handles of rectangular cross-section, the body with two wide registers with dissolved dragons detailed with meander on a plain ground separated by a thin band, the handles with rows of short S-shapes. The flat-domed cover with three ring handles decorated with two concentric zones filled with the same type of decoration as on the body, the central roundel with volutes and spirals. Mould marks to the legs and base. Casting flaw and small restoration.
Height ca 36 cm; diameter at the rim 23 cm; diameter across the handles 45 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/春秋晚期 青銅三足鼎
來源：德國呂丁格豪森 Hugo和Gerda Vedder私人收藏
可比：Jenny So著，《Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation》，紐約1995年，圖版13-17及20
Provenance
Collection Hugo (1926-2006) and Gerda Vedder (1932-2019), Lüdinghausen, Germany
Literature
Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York 1995, cat. no. 13-17 and 20