Serving vessel (ding) Maker: Unknown

late 6th–early 5th century B.C.

Asian Art

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

9 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (24.2 × 27 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh in memory of her husband Thomas Sedgwick van Volkenburgh, B.A. 1866

Accession Number

1940.318

Geography
Culture
Period

Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–221 B.C.E.)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh (died 1940), New York, NY; bequest in 1940 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 285, ill
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 8–9, no. 10, ill
  • Sueji Umehara, Kodoki keitai no kokogakuteki kenkyu (Kyoto: Toho Bunka Kenkyujo, 1940), no. 14, pl. 24
  • Sueji Umehara, Sengoku shiki doki no kenkyu (Kyoto: Toho Bunka Gakuin Kyoto Kenkyujo, 1936), pl. 37
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Inscriptions

Cast inscription of seven characters rendered as: " wang yu chu tzu tso ssu ting", translation: "the king's son Chu had made privately this food vessel ting".

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