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A RARE BRONZE RITUAL WINE TRIPOD 商 青銅斝
VESSEL, JIA 來源
SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC 大成古玩有限公司，香港，1980 年代
The vessel is finely cast supported on three tall blade legs. The 香港私人珍藏
bulging body is cast in deep relief with stylised taotie masks with 比較一器型及紋飾相似惟較大（45 公分高）的斝，定年公元前 13-12
protruding eyes, all between narrow bands of rings. The tall flaring
neck is similarly decorated and there are two short rectangular 世紀，見 R.W.Bagley 著《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
posts with conical caps at the mouth rim. The side is applied with Collections》，華盛頓，1987 年，164-5 頁，圖版 7 號，並稱兩層紋飾
an undecorated strap handle and vessel has a greyish-green patina 的斝出現於安陽早期（公元前 1300-1030 年）。 比較另一相似斝（35.2
overall. 公分高），著於《故宮商代青銅禮器圖錄》，台北，1998 年，152-7 頁，
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high 圖版 9 號。
另比較紋飾同本拍品極其相似的一例，同飾雙層饕餮紋夾於圓圈邊框
HK$2,000,000-3,000,000 US$260,000-390,000 內，見《殷墟青銅器》，北京，1985 年，73 頁，圖版 GM907:4（圖一）。
PROVENANCE
Tai Sing Fine Antiques Ltd., Hong Kong, 1980s
A jia of larger size (45 cm. high) with similar profile and bands of
decoration around the sides dated 13th-12th century BC is illustrated by
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
Washington, DC and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 164-5, no. 7.
The author notes that "jia decorated in two registers appeared shortly
before the Anyang period" (c. 1300-c. 1030 BC).
Another similar jia (35.2 cm. high) is illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes
in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, 1998, pp. 152-7, no.
9, where on p. 156, two excavated examples are illustrated. Both were
excavated in 1968, in Henan province, Anyang prefecture, Xiao chuan,
the first from Tomb M388, the second from Tomb 331.
For a further, very similar Jia with the same two-register taotie design
between bands of small rings, see Bronze Vessels from Yin Xu, The
Institute of Archaelogy, CASS, Beijing, p. 73, pl. GM907:4 (fig. 1)

fig. 1
圖一
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