Page 50 - Important Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes from a Distinguished European Collection

1507 THE FU JI LIDING 商晚期 公元前十二至十一世紀 父己鬲鼎
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The tri-lobed body is raised on three columnar legs, and is cast above each 來源
leg with a large taotie mask with rounded eyes fanked by a pair of descending A. F. Philips博士（1874-1951）收藏，荷蘭。
dragons, all reserved on a leiwen ground. A pair of inverted U-shaped handles 倫敦蘇富比, 1978年3月30日, 拍品9號。
rises from the rim. One side of the interior is cast with a three-character 紐約佳士得, 1991年11月27日, 拍品241號。
inscription. The bronze has a grey and mottled milky-green patina.
著錄
8Ω in. (21.5 cm.) high H.F.E. Visser，《Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and
Belgium》，阿姆斯特丹，1948年，圖版2，編號2。
$120,000-180,000 劉雨、汪濤，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，編號157。

PROVENANCE
Dr. A. F. Philips (1874-1951) Collection, Netherlands.
Sotheby’s London, 30 March 1978, lot 9.
Christie’s New York, 27 November 1991, lot 241.
LITERATURE
H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium,
Amsterdam, 1948, pl. 2, no. 2.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions
from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales, Shanghai, 2007, no. 57.

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48 POWER and PRESTIGE IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE RITUAL BRONZES FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION