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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, YU
- SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, YU
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
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    $18,000 - $25,000

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Sale 2297
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
26 March 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, YU
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The deep sides cast with a band of 'boss and diamond' pattern below a narrow band of six pairs of dragons shown in profile separated by three taotie masks cast in high relief, raised on a pedestal foot pierced with three oblong apertures above a band of further pairs of dragons centered by a narrow flange, the mottled patina with malachite, azurite and ferrous encrustation
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam., wood stand, two Japanese wood boxes

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Private Japanese collection, acquired in the 1920s.

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