AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (DING), LATE SHANG DYNASTY

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (DING)

LATE SHANG DYNASTY

商末 鼎鼎



the deep U-shaped body supported on three tall cylindrical legs, the everted rim set with two upright loop handles, crisply cast around the body with a band of three pairs of stylized confronting dragons against a leiwen ground, centered by short vertical flanges, all above a skirt of pendent triangular lappets enclosing formalized cicadas on leiwen ground, cast to the inside rim with a single pictogram reading ding, the surface with malachite encrustation, wood stand (2)

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Height 8⅝ in., 22 cm