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Lot 135
A Rare Bronze Ritual Food Vessel, Fangding
Sale 647 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 25, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$60,000 -
80,000
Price Realized
$193,750
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Lot Description
A Rare Bronze Ritual Food Vessel, Fangding
LATE SHANG DYNASTY (12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.)
the rectangular body cast raised on four cylindrical legs, each side cast with a taotie mask separated by a flange, all against a leiwen ground, the rim surmounted by a pair of upright loop handles, one interior wall cast with an inscription depicting two kneeling figures flanking a ritual vessel above a gui character; together with a copy of Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Robert W. Bagley, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987.
Height 8 x width 6 3/4 x depth 5 1/4 inches.