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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF ARCHAIC 商末 子龔鼎一對
BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSELS (DING) 銘文：
LATE SHANG DYNASTY 子龔
each finely cast with the deep U-shaped body rising from 來源：
three tall cylindrical legs to an everted rim surmounted by a 私人收藏
pair of upright handles, crisply decorated around the exterior
with three pairs of taotie masks against a leiwen ground, 紐約佳士得1999年3月22日，編號188
each detailed with bulging eyes and centered by a vertical 展覽：
flange, all above a row of pendent cicada motifs, both vessels 《吉金鑒古》，芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，2018
cast to the interior with a two-character inscription in mirror
image reading Zi Gong, the surface with light malachite 年，編號22及23及頁242（銘文）
encrustation (2) 出版：
Height 6½ in., 16.5 cm
于省吾，《商周金文錄遺》，北京，1957年，編號
PROVENANCE 37及38
Private Collection. 嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號0225
Christie’s New York, 22nd March 1999, lot 188. 及0226
中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成釋
EXHIBITED
文》，卷2，香港，2001年，編號1306及1307
Mirroring China’s Past. Emperors, Scholars, and Their 王冠英，〈子龍鼎的年代與子龍族氏地望〉，《中國
Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2018, cat. nos 22
and 23 and p. 242 (inscription). 歷史文物》，期5，北京，2006年，頁17，圖4
中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，
LITERATURE 北京，2007年，編號01306及01307
Yu Shengwu, Shang Zhou jinwen luyi [Record of Shang and 汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上
Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 1957, nos 37 and 38. 海，2007年，圖版35及36
Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji, [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions],
Taipei, 1983, nos 0225 and 0226. 王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，頁
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of 371及372
Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng shiwen 彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
[Interpretations of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版4
inscriptions], vol. 2, Hong Kong, 2001, nos 1306 and 1307. 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷1，上
Wang Guanying, ‘Zilongding de niandai yu zilongzushi diwang
[The dating of Zi Long ding and the location of the Zi Long 海，2012年，編號00466及00467
clan]’, Zhongguo lishi wenwu / Journal of National Museum of 嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北
China, vol. 5, Beijing, 2006, p. 17, fig. 4. 京，2014年，頁337，編號0399-01306及0400-01307及
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social 頁942，編號399及400
Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and
Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, nos 01306 and 01307.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes
with Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales,
Shanghai, 2007, pls 35 and 36.
Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of
pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing,
2007, pp 371 and 372.
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 4.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes
from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 1, Shanghai, 2012, nos
00466 and 00467.
Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai
yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang
Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 337, nos 0399-01306 and 0400-
01307 and p. 942, nos 399 and 400.
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