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A Chinese archaic bronze Li-Ding (food vessel), late…
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Melbourne
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25-Oct-2015
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A Chinese archaic bronze Li-Ding (food vessel), late Shang/early Western Zhou, 12-10th century BC, supported on three columnar legs, the three lobes forming the sides of the deep vessel, well-cast and rising to an everted rim set with two upright handles, with a stylised band around the waisted neck, cast in low-relief with three taotie masks, each centred with a pair of eye-bosses, and a low-raised flange, the surface with light malachite encrustation, 22 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne. Reference: Please refer to Sotheby's, New York, 31 March and 1 April 2005, Lot 151, Sotheby's, New York 19 March 2002, 'the Robert Hatfield Ellsworth collection', Lot 14, and Mossgreen, 23-25 November 2008, Lot 762, other li-ding of this form are included in Robert W. Bagley, Chinese ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C. 1987, nos. 93-95
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