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A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes
RITUAL WINE VESSEL (HU) with Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales,
LATE SHANG DYNASTY Shanghai, 2007, no. 326 and col. pl. 17 left.
Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of
well cast with the pear-shaped body of oval section, the pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing,
exterior decorated with three principal registers of taotie 2007, p. 273.
masks with raised ‘eyes’ against leiwen grounds, on the Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
broad sides each mask centered by a vertical flange, divided Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 12.
by horizontal registers of stylized kuilong and sinuous Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
creatures with roundels, the neck set with a pair of lug jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes
handles decorated with further taotie masks, the tall splayed from Shang and Zhou dynasties], Shanghai, 2012, vol. 21,
foot with a band of confronting kuilong and further taotie, the no. 11974.
interior of the base cast with a single-character inscription Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai
reading ji yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang
Height 14⅝ in., 37 cm Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 779, no. 4693-J944 and p. 1680,
no. 4693.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Hans Georg Oeder (1880-1938). $ 400,000-600,000
Sotheby’s London, 19th June 1984, lot 8.
Eskenazi Ltd., London. 商末 壺
The Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection.
Sotheby’s London, 7th June 2000, lot 5. 銘文：
薺
EXHIBITED
來源：
Mirroring China’s Past. Emperors, Scholars, and Their
Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2018, cat. no. 18 Hans Georg Oeder (1880-1938) 收藏
and p. 241 (inscription). 倫敦蘇富比1984年6月19日，編號8
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
LITERATURE
趙氏山海樓收藏
Carl Hentze, Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in den 倫敦蘇富比2000年6月7日，編號5
frühchinesischen Kulturen, Antwerp, 1941, vol. 2, pls XLIV
and XLV, nos 92 and 93. 展覽：
Jessica Rawson, The Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection of 《吉金鑒古》，芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，2018
Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, pl. 5. 年，編號18及頁241（銘文）
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, ed., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu
[Compilation of recently discovered bronze inscriptions], 出版：
Beijing, 2002, vol. 3, pl. 944. Carl Hentze，《Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in
Zhong Baisheng, Chen Zhaorong, and Huang Mingchong,
et al., ed., Xinshou Yin Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji qiying den frühchinesischen Kulturen》，安特衛普，1941年 ，
huibian [Compendium of inscriptions and images of recently 卷2，圖版XLIV及XLV，編號92及93
included bronzes from Yin and Zhou dynasties], Taipei, 傑西卡•羅森，《趙氏山海樓所藏古代青銅器》，香
2006, no. 1930. 港，1988年 ，圖版5
劉雨及盧岩編，《近出殷周金文集錄》，北京，2002
年，冊三，圖版944
鐘柏生、陳昭榮及黃銘崇等編，《新收殷周青銅器銘
文及器影彙編》，台北，2006年，編號1930
汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上
海，2007年，編號326及彩色圖版17左
王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，
頁273
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版12
吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，上
海，2012年，卷21，編號11974
嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北
京，2014年，頁779，編號4693-J944及頁1680，編號
4693

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