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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE COLLECTION

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A SUPERBLY CAST BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, LIDING The inscription cast on the interior of the vessel, Fu Ding, can be translated
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC as 'Father Ding.' This is an abbreviated dedicatory inscription that means
'dedicate this vessel to Father Ding.'
The lobed body is raised on three undecorated legs and is cast in relief with
three large taotie masks divided by flanges reserved on a leiwen ground, all
Liding vessels decorated with a single frieze of large taotie first appeared
beneath a cicada border. The interior is cast with a two-character inscription,
at the beginning of the late Shang dynasty, circa late 13th century BC,
Fu Ding, and there are areas of malachite encurstation.
and continued to be popular throughout the late Shang period. The robust
7æ in. (19.7 cm.) high, hardwood stand, Japanese double wood box
shape and vigorous high-relief decoration of this liding represent the artistic
apogee of bronze casting in the late Shang dynasty and are very similar to
$100,000-150,000 that of liding found in the late Shang capital Yinxu at modern day Anyang
city, Henan province, such as the three illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi
quanji (Complete Collection of Chinese Bronzes), vol. 2: Shang 2, Beijing,
PROVENANCE:
Sadajiro Kawai, Kyoto, before 1961.
1997, nos. 11, 16, and 19. See, also, similar lobed liding decorated with taotie
Important private Japanese collection, prior to 1994, and thence by descent
masks beneath a frieze of cicadas is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual
within the family.
Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation,
Washington, DC,1987, pp. 484-85, no. 92.
EXHIBITED:
Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefectural Cultural Hall, Ancient Chinese Art
- The Origin of Japanese Art, 1968. 重要日本私人珍藏
晚商 安陽 公元前十二至十一世紀 青銅饕餮紋父丁 鬲 鼎
LITERATURE:
Umehara Sueji, Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Japan, vol. 3,
Osaka, 1961, no. 182. 銘文: 父丁
Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of Japanese Art, Kagawa, 1968, Cover and A2.
來源:
川合定治郎, 京都, 1961年前
日本重要私人珍藏, 1994年前入藏, 後家族傳承
展覽:
香川県, 香川県文化会館, 「日本美術の源流: 古代中國美術」, 1968年
出版:
梅原末治, 《日本蒐儲支那古銅精華》, 卷三, 大阪, 1961年, 編號182
《日本美術の源流: 古代中國美術》, 1968年, 封面及圖版A2

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