TWO RARE BRONZE RITUAL LADLES

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 BC

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TWO RARE BRONZE RITUAL LADLES
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 BC
One with arched handle with an openwork terminal cast as a dragon confronting a bird, with a bovine mask cast at the base of the ovoid bowl at the other end; the slender arched handle of the other ladle cast with fine ribs set between a taotie mask cast in intaglio at one end just below the similarly ribbed barrel-shaped bowl and another taotie cast in relief at the other end below the fan-shaped terminal cast with a cicada and key-fret border
8 and 8¼ in. (20.3 and 21 cm.) long (2)

来源

First ladle: acquired prior to 1987.
Second ladle: C.T. Loo & Co., New York.
Frank Caro, New York, 1961.

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Two ladles similar to both of the present ladles are illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 3 - Shang, Beijing, 1997, p. 164, no. 163, which is similar to the second ladle, and p. 166, no. 166, which is similar to the first with the openwork handle.