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A SMALL BRONZE TRIPOD CONTAINER, LIChina, Shang dynasty

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A SMALL BRONZE TRIPOD CONTAINER, LI
China, Shang dynasty


The body modeled in three convex bags supported by as many cylindrical feet, the outside of the surface furrowed by a dense series of diagonal parallel incisions.

8,6 cm high

Provenance: Fabrizio Savi collection, acquired in the early 2000s.
Containers of similar shape and size, with a similar etched 'rope' motif were also made in the same period in ceramic (see the item in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, inv. 1972.275.4).

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