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A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD 商公元前十二世紀 青銅亞醜鼎
VESSEL, DING 《亞醜》銘
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY BC
the exterior cast and inlaid in black with friezes of cicadas and 來源：
pendent blades, all supported on three splayed flat legs cast 第二次世界大戰前得於日本
with dragons, the interior with an inscription possibly reading 紐約佳士得2009年9月15日，編號296
ya chou, Japanese wood box
20.4 cm, 8 in.
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Japan prior to World War II.
Christie’s New York, 15th September 2009, lot 296.
HK$ 1,000,000-1,500,000
US$ 129,000-194,000
While ding of this type were popular through to the Western 青銅「亞醜」鼎，勁拔有力，紋飾清晰俐落，珍稀罕
Zhou dynasty, the tall legs and shallow shape of the present 見。此類青銅鼎造形，高足淺身，盛行於商末西周。
example places it in the latter part of the Shang dynasty. The 器身主體飾線刻蟬紋，甚是少見，以此推測，本品或
unusually linear rendering of the band of cicada, a generally
subsidiary motif, further suggests a date in the last centuries 應造於商朝晚期，遷都殷墟之後，現河南安陽。參考
of the dynasty, probably after the move of the capital to 安陽出土一例，鼎圓直足，器身綴相類蟬紋，刊於吳
Yinxu, present-day Anyang in Henan province. A ding with 鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷1，圖版89
straight columnar legs, decorated with a closely related ，同錄一件青銅鼎，藏於北京大學賽克勒考古與藝術
cicada band, was unearthed at Anyang, and illustrated in Wu 博物館，圖版88。
Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng
[Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from the
Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 1, pl. 89, together with a ding 此類圓鼎扁足器形搭配雙層蟬紋者，極為罕有，著錄
in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at 未見相似作例。形制類同者，多飾饕餮紋或龍紋，如
Beijing University, pl. 88. 一件尺寸較大之青銅鼎，亦出土於安陽，錄於《中國
Vessels of this form and decorated with a band of cicada above 青銅器全集》，卷2，北京，1997年，圖版57。
pendant lappets are very unusual and no other closely related
example appears to have been published. Ding of this type are 台北故宮博物院藏數件「亞醜」銘青銅器，如一件
more commonly known with zoomorphic masks or dragons, 青銅方鼎，載於《故宮商代青銅禮器圖錄》，台
such as a slightly larger ding also unearthed at Anyang,
illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji [Complete collection 北，1998年，圖版97。並參考一件青銅簋，刊錄於羅
of Chinese archaic bronzes], vol. 2, Beijing, 1997, pl. 57. 森，《Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M.
Bronzes bearing the inscription ya chou include a gui vessel Sackler Collections》，華盛頓特區，1990年，圖38.1，
illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes 頁362。據存世鑄器考之，「亞醜」應為晚商至西周時
from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C., 1990, 期，山東一帶權勢強大、富裕鼎盛之家族。
fig. 38.1, p. 362. There is also a number of Shang bronze
ritual vessels in the National Palace Museum with a ya chou
inscription, but differently written. These include the fangding
illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace
Museum Collection, Taipei, 1998, pl. 97. It is believed that ya
chou was a powerful clan in Shandong which flourished during
the late Shang dynasty to the early Western Zhou period.

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