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PROPERTY OF A LADY 西周 或宣王時期（約公元前827-782年）
AN IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL 仲義父作新客鼎
FOOD VESSEL (DING) 銘文：
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, PROBABLY KING 仲義父作新客寶鼎 其子子孫孫永寶用 華
XUAN PERIOD (C. 827- C. 782 BC)
來源：
well cast with the deep rounded body supported on three 陝西省扶風縣法門鎮任家村窖藏，出土於光緒十六年
cabriole legs, the lipped rim set with a pair of upright loop （1890年）之前
handles, the exterior decorated with a band of horizontal
concentric lappets, the interior cast with a seventeen- 端方（1861-1911）收藏
character inscription, the surface with areas of malachite 山中商會，大阪，1923年已購入
encrustations 傑•利開普，紐約
Diameter 12⅞ in., 32.9 cm 魏格，紐約
美國私人收藏
PROVENANCE
Excavated at Ren village, Famen town, Fufeng county, 展覽：
Shaanxi province, prior to Guangxu 16th year, corresponding 《古代中國美術展觀》，山中商會，大阪，1923年，
to 1890. 編號7
Collection of Duan Fang (1861-1911).
Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, by 1923
Jan W. A. Kleijkamp, New York.
Harold G. Wacker, New York.
American Private Collection.
EXHIBITED
Kodai chugoku bijutsu tenkan [Grand exhibition of ancient
Chinese works of art], Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1923, cat.
no. 7.
⊝ $ 300,000-500,000

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