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PROPERTY FROM AN OKLAHOMA PRIVATE COLLECTION 西周初 冉父丁觶 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RICHARD RUBIN 商末 / 西周初 父乙鼎
AN INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL 銘文： AN INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL 銘文：
WINE VESSEL (ZHI) 冉父丁 FOOD VESSEL (DING) 父乙
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY LATE SHANG / EARLY WESTERN ZHOU
來源 來源
cast to the interior with a three-character inscription reading DYNASTY
Ran fu ding 倫敦蘇富比1986年6月10日，編號41 cast to the interior below the rim with a three-character Hartman Rare Art, Inc.，紐約，1984年6月5日
Height 5 in., 12.8 cm Charles R. Nesbitt (1921-2007) 收藏，此後家族傳承 inscription reading Wu Fu Yi
出版 Height 9⅞ in., 25 cm
PROVENANCE
汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上
Sotheby’s London, 10th June 1986, lot 41. PROVENANCE
Collection of Charles R. Nesbitt (1921-2007), and thence by 海，2007年，圖版184 Hartman Rare Art, Inc., New York, 5th June 1984.
descent.
The clan sign on the present ding is extremely rare. Only one
other example bearing the same pictogram appears to be
LITERATURE published. See a late Shang dynasty bronze jue cast with
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, Liusan oumei yinzhou youming a three-character inscription reading Wu Zu Gui 祖癸, in
qingtongqi jilu / A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, published in The Institute
Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales, Shanghai, of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed.,
2007, pl. 184. Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze
inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 08360.
$ 2,000-3,000
$ 30,000-50,000

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