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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, 西周׀ǎՌ元ע十ˏ至十ˠ紀ǎ
YOU 青銅夔龍紋卣
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC 銘文：̭≲ḍ̋
The pear-shaped vessel is cast on the neck and the domed cover with a narrow Ϝ源
band of kui dragons confronted on narrow flanges, and raised on a splayed foot 年͠ע已Ն日本境Շ
encircled by a band of four 'eyes' centering diagonally-arranged scrolls. The arc- 秦峰⁸珍藏
神戶
日本
shaped handle is decorated with dense lozenge patterns and terminates on each
展覽
end with an animal-head with bottle horns. The interior of the vessel and the
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૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǚ(SBOE &YIJCJUJPO PG $IJOFTF
interior of the cover are cast with matching four-character inscriptions reading ya
"SUǚ
年 月 日至 月 日
mao fu yi (Ya X. Father Yi).
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14º in. (36.5 cm.) high, zitan stand, Japanese double wood box inscribed by
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Ǘ(SBOE &YIJCJUJPO PG $IJOFTF "SUǘ
Hata Zoroku I (1823-1890) or Hata Zoroku IV (1898 -1984)
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年
圖ḛ編號
$200,000-300,000 林巳奈夫
Ǘ殷周時代青銅器̃研②ǘ
東̺
年
卷ˏ
頁
編號
PROVENANCE:
In Japan prior to 1939. A bronze you of similar size, shape, and decoration,
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan. but lacking the animal-head terminals, is illustrated
by Jessica Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes
EXHIBITED: from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Cambridge,
Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum, Grand Exhibition of Chinese Art, Massachusetts, vol. IIB, pp. 482-83, no. 65. Also
22 April-14 May 1939. illustrated, pp. 478-79, no. 64, is another bronze you
of similar shape and size, but with narrow bands of
LITERATURE:
dragons rather than taotie, which was subsequently
Osaka Municipal Museum, Grand Exhibition of Chinese Art, Osaka, 1939,
sold at Christie’s New York, 20 September 2013.
cat. no. 18.
Minao Hayashi, In Shu Jidai Seidoki no Kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou
bronzes), Tokyo, 1986, vol. 1, p. 263, no. 66.

(inscription by Hata Zoroku I or IV on interior of box cover) (inscriptions)

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