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PROPERTY FROM THE NUMINA COLLECTION
玉古堂收藏
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A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE INSCRIBED RITUAL FOOD VESSEL,
DING
Early Western Zhou Dynasty
Raised on three slightly tapering legs, the swelling body finely cast near
the upper section with a narrow band of six stylised kui-dragons in low
relief below an everted rim cast with a pair of upright loop handles, the
interior crisply cast with an eight-character pictogram reading Yatun
zuo fuyi bao zunding, with a pale green and milky patina, small patches
of malachite encrustation, wood stand.
21cm (8 1/4in) high. (2).

HKD1,800,000 - 2,220,000
US$230,000 - 290,000

西周早期 青銅龍紋亞豚鼎

Inscription: Yatun zuo fuyi baozun ding (Yatun made this precious ding
for Father Yi)

銘文: 亞豚作父乙寶尊鼎

Provenance:
The Numina collection, Hong Kong

Published and Illustrated:
Sheng Yu, Yuhuage jinwen (Archaic Bronze Inscriptions in the Yuhuage 來源：
Studio), manuscript, late 19th century/early 20th century, p.49, no.1 香港玉古堂收藏
(inscription rubbing)
Luo Zhenyu, Yin wencun (Texts Surviving from the Yin Dynasty), Shang 出版及著錄：
Yu, 1916, vol.1, p.72 (inscription rubbing) 盛昱編，《鬱華閣金文》，手稿本，十九世紀晚/20th世紀初，頁二十，
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben (Rubbings of Archaic Bronze 編號1（銘文拓片）
Inscriptions at the Xiaojiaojingge Studio), Shanghai, 1935, vol.2, p.2, 羅振玉編，《殷文存》，上虞，1916年，上卷，頁72 （銘文拓片）
no.2 (inscription rubbing) 劉體智編，《小校經閣金文拓本》，上海，1935年，卷2，頁49，
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun, Beijing, 1937, vol.3, p.14, no.3 編號2（銘文拓片）
(inscription rubbing) 羅振玉編，《三代吉金文存》，北京，1937年，卷3，頁14，編號3
Wang Xiantang, Guoshi jinshi zhigao (A Record of Bronze and Stone （銘文拓片）
Inscriptions in Chinese History), manuscript, 1943, p.2020, no.253 王獻唐編，《國史金石志稿》，手稿本，1943年，頁2020，編號253
(inscription rubbing) （銘文拓片）
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，北京，1984年，
Yinzhou jinnuen jicheng (Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze 編號2315 （銘文拓片）
Inscriptions), Beijing, 1984, no.2315 (inscription rubbing) 吳鎮烽編，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，上海，2012年，編號
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng 1818（銘文拓片）
(Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang
and Zhou Dynasties), Shanghai, 2012, no.1818 (inscription rubbing)

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