RITUELLT KÄRL med LOCK, brons. "Ding", Östra Zhoudynastin.
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Tripod men ben som tyvärr är avbrutna, botten har gått ur. Uppresta hänklar, band runt midjan som delar två arkaiskt dekorerade områden. Locket med dekor i relief. Höjd omkring 28 cm. Längd 33,5 cm.
Omfattande skador, spår av gammal lagning. Enkrustering.
Proveniens
Sent to Sweden with M/S Formosa in 1934 by Mr Ingebreth Mossige-Norheim (1883-1944). See the movie he made from his journeys through Asia with his wife Gertrud Maria Charlotta Mossige-Norheim during this trip in 1934.
Ingebreth worked as a director and head of chemical aquisitions for Svenska tändksticksaktiebolaget (Swedish Match).
Utställningar
Compare a similar sold at Christies: Sale 2580, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I
New York|13 - 14 September 2012 LOT 1247.
Litteratur
Compare the similar ding and cover illustrated by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1995, pp. 158-59, no. 20. The author ascribes the vessel to North-central China, Shanxi-Henan provinces, and notes that a similar vessel is in the collection of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, and also illustrates, p. 160, fig. 20.1, a very similar ding and cover from Shanxi Tunliu Jiajagou, which is dated early 5th century BC.