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An archaic bronze tripod vessel and domed cover, Ding
Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC)The rounded sides and shallow domed cover each cast with two low-relief bands of braided-rope design, the bands on the ding divided by a thin raised band of small oval bosses and with upright arched handles at the sides cast with a continuation of the braided rope design, the cover with three upright cylindrical lug handles equally spaced on the outer braided-rope band (some encrustation). 12 1/2in (31.7cm) across
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東周 青銅鼎For two bronze vessels from the Eastern Zhou period, a ding (6th-5th century BCE) and a jian (5th Century BCE), each with a form of braided-rope design, see Pope, Gettins, Cahill and Barnard, The Freer Chinese Bronzes, Vol. 1, Catalogue, Washington D.C., 1967, pp 490-495, pl. 90 and pp. 478-483, pl. 88, respectively. For others, also of a slightly larger and more ornate type, see www.metmuseum.org, accession no.: 1988.20.6a,b, (ritual tripod cauldron), formerly in the Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection and gifted to the Metropolitan Museum, New York in 1988; and another in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from the ancient state of Jin in Shanxi province is illustrated in www.lacma.org, accession no.: M.74. 103a-b. Both ding also have three cylindrical lugs on the cover.See others versions of a similar type at auction; Bonhams, San Francisco, 27 June 2017, lot 8096; Lempertz, Cologne, 7-8 June 2019, lots 646 and 647; Sotheby's, London, lot 204; and Christie's, London, 9 November 2015, lot 9.
