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A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD 晚商 青銅竊曲紋鼎
FOOD VESSEL, DING 銘文：北單戈
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
來源
The vessel is powerfully cast with deep rounded sides raised on 紐約佳士得，2008 年 9 月 17 日，拍品 357 號
three columnar legs. The exterior is cast in low relief with a wide 紐約佳士得，2013 年 3 月 21 日，拍品 1216 號
band of serpents reserved on a leiwen ground, below a pair of bail
handles at the rim. The interior is cast with a graph and the bronze 展覽
surface has a dark silvery-gray patina with some green and azurite 借展予寧楽美術館，奈良，19 世紀 60 年代早期
encrustation.
9¬ in. (24.4 cm.) high, box 出版
HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000 梅原末治，《日本蒐儲支那古銅精華》，第 3 冊，大阪，
1961 年，圖版 179 號
PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 357 銘文出版：
Sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2013 , lot 1216 Noel Barnard 及張光裕，《中日歐美澳紐所見所拓所摹金文
彙編》，第 7 冊，台北，1978 年，圖版 1310 號
EXHIBITED R. W. Bagley，《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
Formerly on loan to the Neiraku Museum, Nara, early 1960s
Collections》，華盛頓，1987 年，頁 91，圖版 89 號
LITERATURE
Umehara Sueji, Nihon Shucho Shina Kodo Seika, Vol. 3, Osaka, 本拍品上銘文亦見於亞瑟·M·賽克勒美術館所藏一件商代青銅方
1961, Pl. 179 彝，見 R.W. Begley 著《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
The inscription: Collections》，華盛頓，1987 年，頁 428-9，圖版 77 號。同書頁
Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies 431-2，圖版 77.1-77.6 另刊七件同攜此銘文青銅器，作者將這批青銅器
of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and 定為安陽早期的第四種風格。
Australasian Collections, vol. 7, Taipei, 1978, no. 1310 類似的紋飾可比較國立故宮博物院藏一商前期青銅鼎，著錄於《A
R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Catalogue of Shang Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions》，台北，1995 年，頁
Collections, the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987, p. 91, fig. 89
36-37。
The inscription appearing inside this vessel consists of the graph
dan inserted between two human figures set back-to-back to form
the character bei (north). Below is the character ge, represented by a
dagger-axe with a tassel suspended from the tang. This inscription, Bei
Dan Ge, appears on a fangyi illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual
Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler
Foundation, 1987, pp. 428-9, no. 77. Bagley also illustrates, pp. 431-2,
figs. 77.1-77.6, seven other bronze vessels bearing this inscription, all
of which he characterizes as belonging to Style IV of the early Anyang
period. Three of the nine Bei Dan Ge bronzes were from the large tomb
WKGM1 at Wuguancun, which is attributed to the reign of Wu Ding
(1324-1266 BC).
A ding decorated with a similar band of snakes and of similar
proportions, but with a more everted mouth rim, from Anyang, is
illustrated in A Catalogue of Shang Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions,
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, pp. 36-37.

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