An archaic bronze tripod ritual food vessel (Liding), Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周初 祖辛鬲

Sotheby's London, 14th November 1972, lot 232.

Sydney L. Moss, London.

Collection of Bella and P.P. Chiu, Hong Kong and San Francisco.

Eskenazi Ltd., London.

倫敦蘇富比1972年11月14日，編號232

Sydney L. Moss，倫敦

趙氏山海樓收藏，香港及三藩市

埃斯卡納齊，倫敦

Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, pl. 930.

Wang Tao and Liu Yu, Liusan oumei yinzhou youming qingtongqi jilu / A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl. 30.

Jessica Rawson, The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, pl. 22.

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930

汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，編號30

羅森，《趙氏山海樓所藏古代青銅器》，香港，1988年，圖版22

Compare a closely related example, illustrated in Zhonghua wuqiannian wenwu jikan. Tongjing pian [Five thousand years of Chinese art series. Bronze mirrors], vol. 5, Taipei, 1990, pls 37 – 42; and one, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 316, no. 27.

Compare also several examples sold in auctions, including one illustrated in Rose Kerr et. al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl. 13, then sold in these rooms, 1st November 2022, lot 104; one attributed to Shang or Western Zhou Dynasty, sold at Christie’s London, 19th April 1983, lot 65; and one sold at Christies London, 16th April 1985, lot 324.