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~523 A MAGNIFICENT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT 商晚期 安陽 青銅饕餮紋方尊
BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, FANGZUN
來源
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
大阪藤田美術館珍藏，入藏於1940年前。
The decoration on each of the four sides of the faceted vessel is arranged in
horizontal registers divided by vertical notched fanges which are repeated 展覽
at the corners. The main register of the tapering mid-section is cast with
large taotie masks with dragon-shaped horns, each fanked by descending 東京，日本經濟新聞社，《中國殷周銅器展》，1958年11月25日至12月7日。
kui dragons on either side and below a narrow register of confronting kui 大阪，日本經濟新聞社，《古代中國青銅器名品展》，1960年8月30日至9月11
dragons with elephant trunks. The high foot is similarly decorated with 日。
taotie masks below a narrow register of confronting kui dragons with
hooked beaks. The canted shoulder has a band of confronting kui dragons 文獻
centered by relief animal masks and separated by mythical birds crowned
by monster masks with bottle horns on the corners, all below a faring neck 《藤田美 術 館 所 藏 品圖 錄》，卷 一，藤田美 術 館，大 阪，19 5 4 年，編 號 7 7。
with a band of upright blades enclosing dispersed elements of taotie above 《中國 殷 周 銅 器展》，日本 經 濟 新 聞 社，東 京，19 5 8 年，編 號 5 4。
pairs of confronting kui dragons. All of the decoration is cast in crisp relief 水野清一，《殷周青銅器與玉》，東京，1959年，85頁。
and reserved on leiwen grounds. The surface has a smooth dark green patina 《古代中國青銅器名品展》，日本經濟新聞社，大阪，1960年，編號41。
with some areas of light malachite encrustation. 梅原末治，《日本蒐儲支那古銅精華》，卷二，大阪，1960年，編號132。
貝塚 茂 樹 編，《世界 美 術 全 集：中國 1，殷、周、戰 國》，卷 12，東 京，19 6 2 年，編
20¬ in. (52.4 cm.) high, gold and silver-inlaid wood stand, Japanese 號35。
double wood box, metal liner inscribed with a cyclical date, gui hai year, 《藤田美術館名品圖錄》，藤田美術館，東京，1972年，編號92。
corresponding to 1923 林巳奈夫，《殷周時代青銅器的研究》，卷一（圖版），東京，1984年，219頁，
有肩尊46。
$6,000,000-8,000,000 樋口隆康， 圓城寺次郎編，《中國青銅器百選》，東京，1984年，編號31。

PROVENANCE 盛酒器。截面呈長方形，敞口、束頸、斜肩、短腹、高圈足。四角和四面中間置八
道長條形扉棱，從圈足至口沿並出簷，頸部以扉棱為對稱設饕餮蕉葉紋，頸根
Fujita Museum, Osaka, acquired prior to 1940. 置相對的夔鳳紋；肩部在相對的夔紋中間鑄有圓雕犧首、在四角鑄圓雕龍首形
鳥；腹部主體飾龍角饕餮紋，兩側填夔紋，饕餮紋上有四小象鼻夔紋組成的窄紋
EXHIBITED 帶；圈足頂每側中間有一小透孔，主體亦飾龍角饕餮紋，其上的紋帶由相對的夔
鳳 組 成。這 些 紋 飾 均 為高浮 雕，上 飾 陰 線，下以雲 雷 紋 襯 地。附一 銅 製内襯，署「
Tokyo, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., Chugoku In Shu dokiten (Exhibition of 癸亥春」（1923年）紀年。
Chinese Bronzes from Yin and Zhou Dynasties), 25 November-7 December
1958. 商晚期 安陽 青銅犠首饕餮文方尊
Osaka, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., Kodai Chugoku Seidoki Meihinten
(Exhibition of Masterpieces of Ancient Chinese Bronzes), 30 August-11
September 1960.

L I T E R AT U R E

Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, vol. 1: Arts and Crafts, Fujita
Museum, Osaka, 1954, no. 77.
Chugoku In Shu dokiten (Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes from Yin and Zhou
Dynasties), Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., Tokyo, 1958, no. 54.
Seiichi Mizuno, Bronzes and Jades of Ancient China, Tokyo, 1959, p. 85.
Kodai Chugoku Seidoki Meihinten (Exhibition of Masterpieces of Ancient
Chinese Bronzes), Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., Osaka, 1960, no. 41.
Sueji Umehara, Nihon shucho shina kodo seika (Selected Relics of Ancient
Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Japan), vol. 2, Osaka: Yamanaka & Co.,
1960, no. 132.
Shigeki Kaizuka, ed., Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu: Chugoku 1, Yin, Shu, Sengoku
(Complete Collection of the World’s Art: China1 Yin, Zhou, and the Warring
States), vol.12, Tokyo, 1962, no. 35.
Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, 1972,
no. 92.
Minao Hayashi, In Shu jidai seidoki no kenkyu (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou
Bronzes), vol. 1 (plates), Tokyo, 1984, p. 219, you jian zun no. 46.
Takayasu Higuchi, Jiro Enjoji, ed., Chugoku seidoki hyakusen (100 Selected
Chinese Archaic Bronzes), Tokyo, 1984, no. 31.

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