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DescriptionAn inscribed archaic bronze tripod food vessel, DingShang dynasty商 青銅蟬紋小鼎
the interior with an inscription who may read Zi and Long
Height 15.3 cm, 6 in.Condition reportFor further information on the condition of this lot please contact Chinese.London@sothebys.com ProvenanceParke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19th-20th February 1958, lot 251.Collection of Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987).Collection of Else Sackler (1913-2000), thence by decsent.Christie's New York, 17th March 2017, lot 1001. 
Park-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1958年2月19至20日，編號251亞瑟·M·賽克勒 （1913至1987年）收藏Else賽克勒(1913至2000）收藏，此後家族傳承紐約佳士得2017年3月17日，編號1001LiteratureRobert Poor, Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China, (lecture slide), Intercultural Arts Press, New York, 1968.Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, pl. 1243.Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1987, pl. 84.
R. Poor，《Bronze Ritual Vessels of Ancient China》(講座），Intercultural Arts Press，紐約，1968年 巴納及張光裕 ，《中日歐美澳紐所見所拓所摹金文彙編》，台北，1978年，編號1243 R. W. Bagley, 《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》, 亞瑟·M·賽克勒基金會, 華盛頓，1987年, 編號84Catalogue noteBowls on three pointed legs were among of the earliest pottery vessels produced in China’s Neolithic period, almost eight thousand years ago. In the Bronze Age, various tripod forms were devised of which the present ding version–a globular bowl with two handles, supported on three sturdy legs–was a particularly satisfactory, functional as well as beautiful solution. It answered the needs to raise a receptacle above a fire source, to place it firmly on uneven ground, and to suspend it for carrying. One of the most important types of China’s ritual bronzes, tripod vessels of ding shape, such as the present vessel, represent one of the most fundamental Chinese vessel forms. Its unmistakable association with antiquity made the shape a classic in later dynasties, when it inspired potters of many periods and regions, even though with its tall legs it is not ideally suited to reproduction in ceramics. As incense burners, vessels of ding form belonged to the regular repertoire of the manufactories at Longquan in Zhejiang in the Southern Song (1127-1279), at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi in the late Ming (1368-1644), and at Dehua in Fujian in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).