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A VERY RARE INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL AND Provenance:
COVER, YOU Gisèle Croës Arts D’Extreme Orient, Brussels, 1997
Mid Western Zhou Dynasty Leon Derwa Collection, Belgium, 1998
Expertly cast of oval section, the slightly compressed pear-shaped Jean-Yves Ollivier Collection
body supported on a splayed foot, encircled by a band of pairs of
crested birds confronted by taotie masks all on a leiwen ground, the Published and Illustrated:
band interrupted on each side by a loop supporting the U-shaped bail G. Croës, From Ancient Kingdoms to Imperial China, International
handle with bovine-mask terminals cast with further bird motifs and Asian Art Fair, New York, 1998, pp.30-31
lozenge-shaped bosses, the fitted and domed cover with a matching K.Y. Cheung, ‘The Inscriptions of Pi Shu Zun-Shedding New Light on
bird frieze, surmounted by a hollow oval knop, a smooth gray-green Dispatch Wares of the Western Zhou’, Bulletin of Institute of History
patina with malachite encrustation, the interior of the vessel and cover and Philology, Vol.1, Part 3, Taipei, 1999, p.772, fig.2
with an inscription reading ‘Pi shu xian yi, ji bu yi, wei mu zong yi ze
bei, yong qian mu ling’. 來源：
25cm (9 2/4in) high. (2). 布魯賽爾古董商吉賽爾藝廊，1997年
比利時藏家Leon Derwa先生舊藏，1998年
£150,000 - 200,000 歐宗易先生珍藏
CNY1,300,000 - 1,800,000
出版及著錄：
西周中期 青銅否叔卣 吉賽爾著，《From Ancient Kingdoms to Imperial China, International
「否弔（叔）獻彝，疾不巳（已）， Asian Art Fair（從古代王國到中華帝國，國際亞洲藝術節）》，紐
母宗彝彝（則）備，用譴母霝」銘文 約，1998年，頁30-31
張光裕著，「西周遣器新識—否叔尊銘之啟示」，載於《中央研究院
歷史語言研究所集刊》，卷1，台北：中央研究院，1999年，頁772，
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