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Property from a Northern California Estate
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Lot 8007
An archaic cast bronze food vessel, ding Warring States period
16 December 2014, 10:00 PST
San FranciscoSold for US$21,250 inc. premium
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An archaic cast bronze food vessel, ding
Warring States period
The massive ding raised on stoutly cast legs joined to a deep belly finely cast with five rows of discrete recumbent gui dragons dissolved into scaled spirals set between raised bands of geometrical lozenge patterns, the lower belly repeating the pattern in two rows and on the everted U-shaped handles, the vessel covered in and out with a dense malachite patina mixed with earthen encrustation, lacking cover.
14in (35.5cm) high
18in (45.8cm) length over handles
The massive ding raised on stoutly cast legs joined to a deep belly finely cast with five rows of discrete recumbent gui dragons dissolved into scaled spirals set between raised bands of geometrical lozenge patterns, the lower belly repeating the pattern in two rows and on the everted U-shaped handles, the vessel covered in and out with a dense malachite patina mixed with earthen encrustation, lacking cover.
14in (35.5cm) high
18in (45.8cm) length over handles
Footnotes
This object has been in the family collection since the late 1980s.














