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On a slightly splayed foot and with animal-shaped handles with flanges. The body decorated in relief with two bands filled with highly stylised dragons and two tiger heads. To the inside a long inscription in four rows. Thick and spotty dark green patina. The inscription was sent to the Institute of Archaeology Academia Sinica in Peking in July 1973. There are two translation, one in German the other in English, accompaning the bronze ding.
Dimensions: Height 15.1 cm; width 29 cm
Literature: Compare an identical bronze in: Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Bd. IIB, Washington, DC/Cambridge Mass. 1990, p. 380-395, mainly no. 42
Provenance: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 9.12.1957, lot 4, plate II Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 23.5.1970, lot 1, plate 2 Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019), Cologne
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