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PROPERTY OF A LADY 商末 青銅乳丁獸面紋簋
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL
(GUI) 來源：
中村准策 (1875-1953) 收藏
LATE SHANG DYNASTY 奧林匹亞蘇富比，倫敦，2003年2月19日，編號327
supported on a tall splayed foot, the wide U-shaped body
rising to an everted rim, the central body boldly cast with 展覽：
a wide band of studded bosses arranged in lozenge panels 寧樂美術館，奈良
composed of elongated leiwen, surmounted by a narrow
band of kuilong with bulging eyes against a leiwen ground,
evenly divided by three mythical beast masks cast in high
relief, the foot encircled by three taotie masks formed from
raised bosses and prominent flanges amidst a leiwen ground
Diameter 10 in., 25.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Nakamura Junsaku (1875-1953).
Sotheby’s Olympia, London, 19th February 2003, lot 327.
EXHIBITED
Neiraku Museum, Nara.
⊖ $ 20,000-30,000
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AN INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes
WINE VESSEL (ZHI) with Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales,
LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU Shanghai, 2007, pl. 173.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
DYNASTY jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes
the pear-shaped body encircled below the waisted neck and from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 19, Shanghai, 2012,
flared rim with a register of two simplified taotie masks, cast no. 10172.
in low relief with bulging eyes and a central flange, all reserved
on a leiwen ground, the tall splayed foot with a narrow band of ⊖ $ 30,000-50,000
diagonal scroll motifs divided by raised bosses, the interior cast
with a two-character inscription fu xin 商末/西周初 父辛觶
Height 4½ in., 11.4 cm 銘文：
父辛
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 28th-29th November 1994, lot 205. 來源：
Sotheby’s New York, 23rd March 2004, lot 581. 紐約蘇富比1994年11月28至29日，編號205
American Private Collection. 紐約蘇富比2004年3月23日，編號581
Christie’s New York, 13th September 2018, lot 1103.
美國私人收藏
LITERATURE 紐約佳士得2018年9月13日，編號1103
Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen xubian [Sequel to the 出版：
gathering of ancient writings in the Zhensongtang], vol. 2,
1934, p. 32. 羅振玉，《貞松堂集古遺文續編》，中，1934年，
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of archaic 頁32
bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 5, 1935, p. 72. 劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷5，1935年，頁
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from the 72
Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties], vol. 14, 1937, p. 37. 羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，卷14，1937年，頁37
Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji, [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], 嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號6363
Taipei, 1983, no. 6363.
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成釋
Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng shiwen 文》，卷4，香港，2001年，編號6128
[Interpretations of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，
inscriptions], vol. 4, Hong Kong, 2001, no. 6128. 北京，2007年，編號06128
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social 汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上
Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin
and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 06128. 海，2007年，圖版173
吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷19，上
海，2012年，編號10172

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