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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojinge jinwen taben (Rubbings of Archaic Bronze Inscriptions
at the Xiaojiaojingge Studio), 1935, vol. 6, p. 31 (inscription only).
1002 Noel Barnard & Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, And Australasian
Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 946 (inscription only).
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, no. 3411
The deep body is raised on three blade-shaped supports and is fat-cast on (inscription only).
the sides with two taotie masks with globular eyes, one centered by a narrow Yinzhou jinwen jicheng (Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions),
fange, the other by an inscription, Zu Ding (Ancestor Ding) beneath the The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing,
C-scroll handle surmounted by a bovine mask. The D-shaped posts that rise 1984, no. 7853 (inscription only).
from the rim have conical caps cast with whorl motifs. The patina is of greyish R. W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The
olive-green color. Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 202-3, no. 22.
7√ in. (20 cm.) high Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Compendium
of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties),
$20,000-30,000 Shanghai, 2012, vol. 15, p. 44, no. 7130.

PROVENANCE 商 祖丁爵

Arthur M. Sackler (1917-1987) Collections, by 1966.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

EXHIBITED

On loan: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966, no. 66.2.155.

LITERATURE

Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen xubian (Supplement to the Gathering
of Ancient Writings at the Zhensongtang Studio), 1934, vol. 2, p. 2 (inscription
only).

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