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69. Ritual bronze food vessel ding
Shang dynasty, Yinxu period, circa 13 – 11 centuries bc.
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商代殷墟時期獸面蟬紋青銅鼎
Height: 26.5 cm, Diameter: 26 cm

Inscription: Exhibited: Published: ▪ Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 2000, lot no. 4.
▪ An inscription consisting of two characters reading ▪ Sotheby’s, London, 8 – 9 July 1974, catalogue no. 4. ▪ Yu Xingwu, Shuang Jian Chi Jijin Tulu, 1934, (Rong ▪ Liu Yu & Wang Tao, Liu San Oumei Yin Zhou You

Father Yi 《父乙》 with a sacrificial vessel ding – like ▪ Sotheby’s, London, 7June 2000, catalogue no. 4. Geng & Zhang Weichi 1958), no. 49. 于省吾《雙劍誃 Ming Qingtongci Jilu (A selection of Early Chinese
pictograph below them is cast inside the vessel. ▪ Trésors de la Chine ancienne, Bronzes Rituels De La 吉金圖錄》 1934年版 (容庚 & 張維持 1958年版) 49號. bronzes with inscriptions from Sotheby’s & Christie’s
Collection Meiyintang, Musée des arts asiatiques ▪ Yu Xingwu, Shang Zhou Jinwen Luyi, 1957, no. 49. 于 sales), Shanghai 2007, no. 43. 劉雨 & 汪濤《流散歐美
Provenance: Guimet, Paris 13 mars – 10 juin 2013, catalogue no. 53. 省吾《商周金文錄遺》1957年版 49號. 殷周有銘青銅器集錄》上海 2007年版 43 號.

▪ Sotheby’s, London, 8– 9 July 1974, lot no. 4. ▪ Sotheby’s, London, 8– 9 July 1974, lot no. 4. ▪ Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of
▪ The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection, Hong Kong. ▪ Barnard N. & Cheung K.Y., Rubbings and Hand Archaeology, Yin Zhou Jinwen Jicheng: Xiuding
▪ Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 2000, lot no. 4. Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, Zengbuben, 2007, no. 01547. 中國社會科學院考古研究
▪ Eskenazi Ltd, London, U.K. European, American, and Australian Collections, 所《殷周金文集成: 修訂增補本》 2007年版 01547號.
Taipei 1978, Vol. 8, no. 1386. ▪ Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang
▪ Sun Zhichu, Jinwen Zhulu Jianmu, Beijing 1981, Collection, London 2009, p. 152 – 153, no. 69.
no. 0448. 孫稚雛《金文著錄簡目》北京 1981年版 ▪ Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou Qingtongqi Mingwen
0448號. Ji Tuxiang Jicheng, Shanghai 2012, Vol. 2, p. 104,
▪ Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji, Taipei 1983, Vol. 1, p. 198, no. 00795. 吳鎮烽《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》上海
no. 515. 嚴一萍《金文總集》臺北 1983年版, 第1冊, 第 2012年版,第2冊, 第104頁00795號.
198頁 515號. ▪ Guimet, Musée des arts asiatiques, Trésors de la
▪ Rawson J., The Bella and P.P. Chiu Collection of Chine ancienne, Bronzes Rituels De La Collection
Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong 1988, p. 40 – Meiyintang, Paris 2013, p. 94, no. 53.
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