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Lot 158 (detail) THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品 1 A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE INSCRIBED RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, DING Late Shang/Early Western Zhou Dynasty The globular body flanked by two upright loop handles and supported on three cylindrical legs, crisply cast under the rim with a band of C-scrolls and taotie masks with prominent eyes, the wall of the interior cast with a five-character inscription, the bronze covered with an attractive olive patina with areas of encrustation. 15.5cm (16 1/8in) high. £20,000 - 30,000 CNY180,000 - 260,000 商晚期/西周早期 青銅饕餮紋三足鼎 Provenance: an English private collection 來源：英國私人收藏 The inscription Zuo muji zunyi 作母己尊彝 may be translated as A bronze ritual vessel ding, Shang dynasty, decorated with similar ‘This sacrifical vessel was made for mother Ji’. designs as the present example, is illustrated in the National Palace Museum, A Catalogue of Shang Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions, Taipei, Ritual bronze vessels such as the present lot were among the most 1995, pp.36-37. highly prized and technically sophisticated objects manufactured in early China. Reserved for use by the most powerful families of the Compare with a related but slightly larger archaic bronze ding, Western time, they carried the offerings presented to the ancestors during the Zhou dynasty, which was sold at Christie’s New York, 4 March 2011, performance of rituals. lot 1246. See also another bronze ding, late Shang dynasty, which was sold at Christie’s New York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1216. These vessels were often cast with inscriptions which recorded the land and regional affiliations of the ancestors and their wider family. Honoured and commemorated through the use of these precious vessels, the ancestral spirits were thought to confer blessings on their descendants while at the same time, the use of the vessel displayed to the living the power and wealth of their owners. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 8 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品 Lots 2 - 4 2 AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, DUI Provenance: a St. Louis, Missouri private collection Warring States Period The Zeiser collection The deep oval bowl raised on four slender tapering legs issuing from Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2015, lot 158 incised monster masks, with a pair of tabbed ring handles issuing from A distinguished London private collection a horned animal, the bronze patinated to a smooth olive-green patina with areas of malachite encrustation. 來源：美國密蘇里州聖路易斯私人舊藏 19.3cm (7 5/8) long. Zeiser舊藏 紐約蘇富比，2015年3月17日，拍品編號158 £2,000 - 3,000 倫敦顯赫私人收藏 CNY18,000 - 26,000 戰國 青銅敦 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 10 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 3 A RARE BRONZE INSCRIBED RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE Late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty, 12th-10th century BC The vessel with a deep U-shaped body rising to a pointed rim opposite a long channelled spout, flanked by a pair of posts capped with conical ‘fire-whorl’ medallions, all supported on three narrow tapered legs, the exterior intricately cast in low relief with two registers of taotie scrolls, one side set with a curved handle issuing from a bovine mask, a three-character inscription Shi Fu Gui (史 父癸) cast beneath the handle, the surface with an overall greyish-green patina with areas of malachite encrustation.