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Rare Chinese Silver-Inlaid Bronze Ritual Tripod Pouring Vessel with Cover (Liu Ding) Warring States Period












Lot: 568

Warring States Period, 3rd Century BCE.
The globular vessel raised on cabriole legs, fitted with a pair of bail handles, and surmounted by a shallow domed cover with single loose ring inlaid in silver alloy with concentric banding of diagonal-scroll patterning interspersed with quatrefoil flower heads the body below the spout is inlaid with eleven silver alloy characters with handsome mottled verdigris patination.


Translation of Inscriptions: Sheng commissioned to create this tripot vessel, in pray of gaining protection of ten thousand years of future generations.
Approximately Width 8.3, Height 7, Depth 8.5.
Property from a San Francisco Collection.


Auction Date: December 7, 2019

Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000


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