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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE ARCHAIC 商末 䖵崠耒斝
BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (JIA) 銘文：
LATE SHANG DYNASTY 䖵崠耒
well cast with the slightly compressed globular body 來源：
encircled in low relief with a broad band of taotie masks on 私人收藏
a leiwen ground bisected by five openwork vertical flanges,
below a narrow band of further taotie masks and flanges 上拍於紐約蘇富比1989年5月31日，編號20
surmounted by a row of upright cicada motifs, the side set 孔令傑（1921-1996）收藏
with a loop handle, the gently flared rim set with a pair of 紐約蘇富比2000年9月20日，編號41
finials decorated with further cicada motifs and surmounted
by whorled medallions, all supported on three slightly 出版：
splayed blade-shaped legs decorated to the outer face with 劉雨及盧岩編，《近出殷周金文集錄》，冊三，北
elongated cicadas, the interior cast with a complex clan sign 京，2002年，圖版916
comprising three individual characters reading kun, dong, 汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上
and lei, the surface with malachite encrustation 海，2007年，編號312，彩圖版15左
Height 10⅜ in., 26.4 cm
王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，
PROVENANCE 頁717
Private Collection. 彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
Offered at Sotheby’s New York, 31st May 1989, lot 20. Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版11
Collection of K’ung Ling-chieh (1921-1996). 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷20，上
Sotheby’s New York, 20th September 2000, lot 41.
海，2012年，編號10934
LITERATURE 嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, ed., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu 京，2014年，頁753，編號4495-J916及頁1643，編號
[Compilation of recently discovered bronze inscriptions], vol. 4495
3, Beijing, 2002, pl. 916.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes
with Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales,
Shanghai, 2007, no. 312 and col. pl. 15 left.
Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of
pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing,
2007, p. 717.
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 11.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes
from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 20, Shanghai, 2012,
no. 10934.
Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai
yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang
Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 753, no. 4495-J916 and p. 1643,
no. 4495.
$ 300,000-500,000

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