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97. Ritual bronze food vessel gui
Shang dynasty, Yinxu period, circa 13 – 11 centuries bc.
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商代殷墟時期獸面紋青銅簋
Height: 14.3 cm, Diameter: 20 cm
Inscription: Exhibited: Published: ▪ Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of
▪ A two – character inscription cast inside the vessel ▪ Far Eastern and Exotic Art, Kunsthaus Lempertz, ▪ Yu Xingwu, Shang Zhou Jinwen Luyi, 1957, no. 122. 于 Archaeology, Yin Zhou Jinwen Jicheng: Xiuding
reads: “Zi Gong”《子龔》. Gong was a clan name and Koln, auction 490, 14 – 15 December 1966, catalogue 省吾《商周金文錄遺》1957年版 122號. Zengbuben, 2007, no. 03078. 中國社會科學院考古研
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zi was a title used during the Shang dynasty for a clan no. 2297. ▪ Kunsthaus Lempertz, Far Eastern and Exotic Art, 究所《殷周金文集成: 修訂增補本》2007年版 03078號
chief or a royal prince. (See also bronze No. 63) ▪ Ancient Chinese bronzes from an English private Cologne, auction 490, 14 – 15 December 1966, lot ▪ Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang
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collection, Eskenazi Ltd, London 15 November – 4 no. 2297. Collection, London 2009, p. 202, no. 97.
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Provenance: December 1999, catalogue no. 2. ▪ Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji, Taipei 1983, Vol. 3, p. 990, ▪ Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou Qingtongqi Mingwen
▪ Originally bought by Dr. Otto Burchard in Beijing ▪ Trésors de la Chine ancienne, Bronzes Rituels De La no. 1834. 嚴一萍《金文總集》臺北 1983年版, 第3冊, Ji Tuxiang Jicheng, Shanghai 2012, Vol. 7, p. 465,
between the years 1943 and 1944. Collection Meiyintang, Musée des arts asiatiques 第990頁 1834號. no. 03653. 吳鎮烽《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》上海
▪ Private European Collection. Guimet, Paris 13 mars – 10 juin 2013, catalogue no. 66. ▪ Eskenazi Ltd, Ancient Chinese bronzes from an 2012年版, 第7冊, 第465頁 03653號.
▪ Kunsthaus Lempertz, Koln, Germany. English private collection, London 1999, p. 12 – 13, ▪ Guimet, Musée des arts asiatiques, Trésors de la
▪ Private Collection, London, U.K. no. 2. Chine ancienne, Bronzes Rituels De La Collection
▪ Eskenazi Ltd, London, U.K. Meiyintang, Paris 2013, p. 108, no. 66.
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