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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LIDING Late Shang Dynasty image 1
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JAY AND MARY JAYNE JONES
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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LIDING
Late Shang Dynasty

Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
15 September 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, LIDING

Late Shang Dynasty
The deep bowl with convex sides divided into three lobes, each cast with dispersed elements to form a taotie mask centered by a notched vertical flange and over the finely delineated leiwen ground, all beneath a collar of left-facing cicadas, the columnar legs slightly tapered, the wide elliptical mouth with square-edged beveled rim supporting a pair of upright 'U'-shaped handles, the surface with encrustations of malachite and cuprite, the interior with a pictogram below the rim.
8in (20.3cm) high; Japanese wood box with fitted lining

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商晚期 青銅鳥銘鬲鼎

Provenance:
Christie's London, 5 June 1973, lot 251, acquired by the House of Cheng Looi
Sotheby's London, 1-2 April 1974, lot 69, acquired by Mrs. Geraerts
Sotheby's London, 25 March 1975, lot 151
Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo
Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2017, lot 598

Exhibited:
Kyoto National Museum, 1970s until 2016 (on loan)

來源：
倫敦佳士得，1973 年 6 月 5 日，拍品編號 251，買家 House of Cheng Looi
倫敦蘇富比，1974 年 4 月 1-2 日，拍品編號 69，買家 Geraerts 夫人
倫敦蘇富比，1975 年 3 月 25 日，拍品編號 151
東京平野古陶軒
紐約蘇富比，2017 年 3 月 23 日，拍品編號 598

來源：
國立京都博物館，1970 年代至 2016年 (借展)

The present lot with its elegant proportion and exquisite casting exemplify the best qualities of the Shang bronzes. The pictogram on this liding depicting a bird by the stream is also found on a similar liding from the collection of Sir Herbert Ingram, gifted to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 1956 and illustrated as accession no. EA1956.3516 on the museum's website.

Compare the bronze liding with closely related taotie decoration beneath a collar of left-facing chi dragons, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Bronzes in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, p. 43, no. 14.

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