A small archaic ritual bronze food vessel, ding, Late Shang dynasty | 商末　青銅夔蟬紋小鼎

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Japanese double wood box h. 16.9 cm 來源 壺中居，東京 A ding with a similarly distinctive curved profile and related decoration in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., is illustrated in Robert W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C., 1987, pp. 462-463, no. 85. Compare also a closely related ding, but with the paired birds confronting in the opposite direction, sold in our New York rooms, 11th September 2012, lot 150; and another of similar form and decoration from the Muwentang Collection, sold in these rooms, 18th December 2020, lot 1005, although the three legs of the present vessel are left undecorated. 美國華盛頓弗利爾美術館藏一類器，具與本品相近的獨特弧形輪廓，並飾以類似紋飾，著錄於貝格立，《賽克勒藏商代青銅禮器》，華盛頓，1987年，頁462至463，編號85。另可參考一例，惟雙鳥反方向對稱，售於紐約蘇富比2012年9月11日，編號150。沐文堂亦藏一例，紋飾形制與本品相近，售於香港蘇富比2020年12月18日，編號1005，惟本品三足光素無紋。

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