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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTION
亞洲重要私人珍藏
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A RARE AND LARGE BRONZE RITUAL 晚期 / 西周早期 青銅「子媚」銘罍
WINE VESSEL, LEI 來源
LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH 大阪私人舊藏，約 1934 年（傳）
CENTURY BC 拍賣於倫敦蘇富比，1985 年 12 月 10 日，拍品 19 號
The vessel is elegantly cast in an ovoid form with a band of whorl 紐約蘇富比，2001 年 9 月 19 日，拍品 3 號
bosses to the shoulders, divided by a pair of D-shaped bovine-mask 紐約蘇富比，2019 年 3 月 20 日，拍品 660 號
handles to each side, just below a plain decorated band to the neck
and the flared mouth. The lower body is cast with three ox-head 出版
handles with bulging eyes, each bearing pictograms incised between 巴納及張光裕，《中日歐美澳紐所見所拓所摹金文彙編》，
the large horns reading zi mei, all rising from a short foot rim. 卷 8，台北，1978 年，編號 1216（銘文）
15√ in. (40.5 cm.) high 劉雨及盧岩，《近出殷周金文集錄》，北京，2002 年，圖版
HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$100,000-150,000 980 號
鍾柏生，陳昭容及黃銘崇等編，《新收殷周青铜器銘文暨器
PROVENANCE 影彙編》，台北，2006 年，編號 1933
An Osaka private collection, circa 1934 (by repute)
Offered at Sotheby’s London, 10 December 1985, lot 19 汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 19 September 2001, lot 3 2007 年，圖版 331 號
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2019, lot 660 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》卷 25，上海，2012
年，編號 13759
LITERATURE
Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies 此類銘文之青銅罍極為珍罕。類似一例著錄於吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘
of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and 文暨圖像集成》卷 25，上海 2012 年，編號 13759，另有近似例，參見“遼
Australasian Collections, vol. 8, Taipei, 1978, no. 1216 (inscription). 寧喀左縣北洞村發現的殷代青銅器”，載於《考古》雜誌 1974 年 6 月，
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, ed., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu [Compilation 圖版 7，編號 1；圖版 6，編號 3 及 圖版 7，編號 2-4 。另有一例銘文罍
of recently discovered archaic bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2002, 參見泉屋博物館珍藏，著錄於《泉屋博物館名品選》，日本京都，2002
pl. 980 年，圖版 115。另可參見陝西省博物館藏罍，著錄於《中國文物精華大全·
Zhong Baisheng, Chen Zhaorong, and Huang Mingchong, 青銅卷》，台北，1993 年，頁 35，圖版 123。
etc., ed., Xinshou Yin Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji qiying
huibian[Compendium of inscriptions and images of recently
included bronzes from Yin and Zhou dynasties], Taipei, 2006, no. 1933
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with
Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl. 331
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng
[Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang
and Zhou Dynasties], vol. 25, Shanghai, 2012, no. 13759.
Bronze lei of this type with cast inscriptions are rare. A much smaller
lei bearing the same two-character inscription, reportedly discovered
from Anyang, Henan province, formerly in the William Charles White
Collection, now in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, is illustrated
by Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng
[Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from Shang and
Zhou Dynasties], vol. 25, Shanghai, 2012, no. 13758. For a lei with
inscriptions and four other lei without inscription, discovered from the
late Shang dynasty hoard in Beidong village, Liaoning province, see
'Liaoning Kazuoxian Beidongcun faxian Yindai qingtongqi' [Yin dynasty
bronze discovered in Beidong village, Kazuo county, Liaoning province],
Kaogu, no.4, Beijing, pl. 7, fig 1, pl. 6, fig. 3 and pl. 7, figs 2, 3, and 4.
Another inscribed lei with two characters in the Sumitomo Collection
is published in Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan: Sumitomo Collection [Ancient Art
from the Sumitomo collection], Kyoto, 2002, pl. 115; another lei is in
the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua
Daquan [Compendium of Chinese bronzes], Taipei, 1993, p. 35, no. 123.

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