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Tripod Caldron (Ding)
Unattributed · Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period (770–481 B.C.), late 6th century B.C., State of Jin
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ton Ying and Company, New York; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, [Kate served as executor of her sister Lucy Maud Buckingham's estate and continued expanding Lucy's collection following her death in 1920] Apr. 23, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 23, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Sueji Umehara, <em>Shina kodō seikwa</em> (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pt. 1, vol. 3, pl. 182.
- Ch’en Meng-chia, ed., <em>Chinese Bronzes in Foreign Collections</em>, 1st series (Peiping: National Library of Peiping, 1946), 62, pl. 9.
- Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 94–97, 160, pls. LIV–LVI.
- George W. Weber Jr., <em>The Ornament of Late Chou Bronzes: A Method of Analysis</em> (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1973), 203–207, fig. 33.1.
- Matsumaru Michio, <em>In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em> (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 22, 382–383.
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