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A RARE SUPERBLY CAST BRONZE RITUAL 晚商 青銅饕餮紋盂
FOOD VESSEL, YU 銘文：立
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
來源
The deep vessel is finely cast with three taotie masks with bulging Littleton & Hennessy Oriental Art，倫敦，1999年5月20日
eyes, each divided by a notched flange and all below a band of 亞洲私人珍藏
two pairs of confronted dragons separated by animal masks just
below the gently everted mouth rim. The tall flaring foot is 盂為商代安陽時期盛行器型，但衰落於西周。比較一件同本拍品極其相
similarly decorated with pairs of dragons separated by notched 似的安陽中期，11-12 世紀青銅盂，見 J.A.Pope 著《The Freer Chinese
flanges. The interior is cast with a single graph reading, li, and all Bronzes》, 第 1 冊，華盛頓，1967 年，343 頁，圖版 61 號。北京故宮博
of the decoration is reserved on leiwen grounds. The bronze has an 物館藏一件紋飾相似的商晚期青銅盂，惟器型比例略異，著於《故宮博
attractive even mottled grey and milky green patina. 物院藏文物珍品全集》，第 27 冊，香港，2006 年，圖版 8。另可比較思
9æ in. (25cm.) diam., box 源堂舊藏一例，拍賣於紐約佳士得，2010 年 9 月 16 日，拍品 818 號。
HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 US$200,000-320,000

PROVENANCE
Littleton & Hennessy Oriental Art, London, 20 May 1999
The yu vessel shape was popular during the Anyang phase of Shang
dynasty, but disappeared during the Western Zhou dynasty. A very
similar yu is illustrated by J.A. Pope et al., The Freer Chinese Bronzes,
Washington, 1967, vol. I, p. 343, pl. 61, where it is dated Shang dynasty,
middle-late Anyang, 12th-11th century BC. A late Shang yu of this
type with similar arrangement of decoration, but of more compressed
proportions and with less pronounced notched flanges dividing and
separating the decoration on the body, is illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 27 - Bronze Ritual
Vessels and Musical Instruments, Hong Kong, 2006, no. 8, and another
example from the Sze Yuan Tang Collection was sold in Christie’s New
York, 16 September 2010, lot 818.

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