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

Lot 329 Dα

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

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
07.12.2019, 11:00 - Tibet/Nepal, China
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 21.080 € (incl. premium)
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A large bronze tripod ritual food vessel (ding) and cover. North-central China, Shanxi/Henan provinces. Eastern Zhou/late Spring and Autumn period, 5th century BC

The basin stands on three bulbous 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 undecorated band, the handles and upper parts of the legs with volutes. 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 base and base. Various restorations to body and lid.
Height 26.1 cm; inner diameter 21 cm; diameter across the handles 35 cm

東周戰國晚期 青銅三足蓋鼎
来源：德國科隆 Gottfried Hertel（1925-2019）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號及20號

Provenance

Collection Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne

Literature

Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York 1995, no. 13-17 and 20