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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL (ZUN) PROVENANCE
SHANG DYNASTY, YINXU PERIOD Nagao Art Museum, Tokyo.
Japanese Private Collection.
of cylindrical form, superbly cast with a subtly rounded
midsection set above a spreading foot and surmounted by EXHIBITED
a trumpet neck, recessed horizontal bands separating each Chugoku In-Shu Doki Ten [Chinese Shang Zhou Bronzes
section and four vertical notched ß anges dividing the foot Exhibition], Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1958,
and midsection into quadrants, the foot and midsection each cat. no. 19.
cast in high relief with two pairs of dissolved taotie masks
staring outward and kuilong crawling alongside the ß anges, LITERATURE
further kuilong marching around the trumpet neck and Yu Shengwu, Shang Zhou jin wen luyi [Record of Shang
extending their slender bodies to border the arched blades and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions], Beijing, 1957, no. 189
ascending toward the rim, a pendent cicada positioned at the (inscription).
pinnacle of each blade, the creatures’ bodies and the ground Seiichi Mizuno, In-Shu Seidoki to Gyoku [Yin and
both covered with a Þ ne leiwen pattern, the interior of the Zhou Bronzes and Jades] Tokyo, 1959, pl. 82, Þ g. 70g
base cast with two large characters reading luo jing, wood (inscription).
stand, two Japanese wood boxes, handwritten description Umehara Sueji, Shina Kodo Seika [Selected Relics of Ancient
label by Kunio Fujita, senior curator for Asian Art, Tokyo Chinese Bronzes], vol. 2, Tokyo, 1960, pl. 138.
National Museum, circa 1960 (6) Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu 12 Chugoku (1) In, Shu, Sengoku
Height 13⅝in., 34.6 cm [Collection of World’s Art. China (1). Shang, Zhou, Warring
States] , vol. 12, Tokyo, 1962, pl. 23.
$ 650,000-850,000
Kunio Fujita, In Teikoku Chugoku Kodai no Bijutsu [Shang
Empire Chinese Ancient Art], Tokyo, 1962, pl. 88.
Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and
Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese,
European, American and Australasian Collections, vol. 7,
Taipei, 1978, p. 778, no. 1273 (inscription).
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions],
Taipei, 1983, no. 4544.
Minao Hayashi, Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu /
Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration: A Conspectus of
Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels, vol. II, Tokyo, 1986, pl. 45.
Institute of Archaeology, CASS, ed., Yin Zhou Jinwen Jicheng
[Compendium of Bronze Inscriptions from Yin and Zhou
Dynasties], Beijing, 2007, pl. 05444 (inscription).
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes
from Shang and Zhou Dynasties], vol. 20, Shanghai, 2012,
no. 11248.

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