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A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, DING Early Western Zhou Dynasty
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2023年05月18日 开拍 / 2023年05月16日 截止委托
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A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, DING
Early Western Zhou Dynasty
The deep U-shaped body supported on three columnar legs, the flat everted rim set with two small upright loop handles above a band of kui dragons encircling the vessel beneath the rim on a ground of leiwen, the remainder of the body cast with a diagonal grid, each diamond-shaped unit defined by an individual leiwen border and with a central circle, a single pictogram cast to the well, the interior cast with a two-character inscription reading Yiran 乙冉, the sage-green patina with patches of malachite encrustations. 19.6cm (7 6/8in) high.
西周早期 青銅乳釘雷紋乙冉鼎

Provenance: Guggenheim 3 (label)
Sotheby's London, 13 December 1963, lot 171
Alan Hartman (1930-2023), New York
Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot 2
An important European private collection, and thence by descent

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China, Los Angeles, 1976, no.6.
C.Deydier, Chinese Bronzes, New York, 1981, pl.14.


來源：Guggenheim 3（標籤）
倫敦蘇富比，1963年12月13日，拍品編號171
紐約古董商Alan Hartman(1930-2023)
紐約蘇富比，1997年3月19日，拍品編號2
歐洲重要私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

展覽著錄：洛杉磯藝術博物館，《Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China》，洛杉磯，1976年，編號6
戴克誠，《Chinese Bronzes》，紐約，1981年，圖版編號14

The vessel is cast to the interior with two characters reading Yiran 乙冉 relating to the powerful clan for which the vessel was produced.

Notable for its elegant proportions and the crisp definition of the 'diamond and boss' design and stylised kui dragons combination, this remarkable tripod vessel testifies to the artistic dexterity and technical advancements achieved in bronze casting during the 11th century BC.

Ding vessels are among the most significant products of the Bronze Age in China. They were used in ritual ceremonies to present food offerings to the ancestors and were associated with royal power, authority and legitimacy to the throne. According to the 'Book of Rites', Zhouli, compiled during the 12th century BC, and the 'Commentary of Zuo' Zuozhuan, dating to the late 4th century BC, the possession of a bronze ding was considered a concrete sign of of heaven-bestowed legitimacy and continued heavenly protection and favour. According to legend, King Yu, founder of the Xia dynasty, had nine large bronze ding vessels cast, one for each of the nine provinces in the kingdom; see Wu Hung, Monumentality in Early Chinese Art, Stanford, 1995, pp.4-11.

The present form of ding is an exceptionally elegant version of the highest-quality food vessels, which were formerly made of pottery beginning in the early Neolithic period. Bronze was far scarcer and required significantly more labour than ordinary ceramic production. In addition, the more elaborate decoration employed on bronze vessels demonstrated their exalted function.

The earliest datable ding made of bronze appear to have been produced towards the end of the Xia dynasty (c.2070-1600 BC). At this time, their shape consisted of a flat-bottomed bowl with thin walls, topped by two vertical handles and supported by three triangular hollow legs. By the Shang dynasty, ding vessels were still thinly cast and had a deep rounded body. Towards the end of the 11th century BC, the body of the ding became rounder and its legs were cylindrical and full-bodied, as can be seen on the present vessel; see C.Deydier, Chinese Bronzes from the Meyingtang Collection, vol.1, Paris, 2011, p.39.

Ding vessels have been excavated in large numbers from Shang and Zhou dynasty burials of the highest-ranking members of society. The tomb of Fu Hao, consort of King Wu Ding of the late Shang dynasty, for example, contained over twenty-six ding vessels. Burials dating to the early Western Zhou period include the site of Yu Bo in Boji, Shaanxi Province, unearthed in the 1980's; see 'Corpus of Chinese Bronzes' Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji, Beijing, 1996-1998, vol.11, nos.163-164.

The distinctive 'diamond and boss' decoration, probably an innovation of the Anyang foundries of the Shang dynasty, enjoyed popularity with pre-dynastic Zhou casters and continued in fashion during the early phases of the Zhou period. This design has been noted mainly on round-bodied vessels dating from the late Shang and early Western Zhou period excavated in Shaanxi Province, as demonstrated by several excavated examples illustrated by R.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington DC, 1987, pp.504-507, no.98, figs.98.3-5 and pp.510-14, nos.100 and 101, figs.100.1-3 and 101.1-2.

Compare with two nearly identical bronze ding vessels, late Shang/early Western Zhou dynasty, one in the Guimet Museum, Paris, illustrated by R.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington DC, 1987, p.96, fig.106, and the other in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by B.Kalgren,'New Studies on Chinese Bronzes', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no.9, 1937, pl.32, fig.132.

Compare with a related bronze ritual vessel ding, late Shang/early Zhou dynasty, of similar shape and decorated with similar bands of stylised kui dragons, which was sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2014, lot 2036.

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