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The three-character inscription on one side of the interior consists of a clan sign followed by two
characters, fu ji (Father Ji). This inscription is exceptionally rare and appears to be found on only one
other vessel, a ding in the Kurokawa Kobubunka Kenkyujo, illustrated by Noel Barnard and Chang
Kuang-yu, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American
and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, vol. 8, p. 692-93.
A very similar vessel, but with a diferent inscription, is in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo,
illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, p. 235, no. 1009. Other very similar vessels are in
the Nathanael Wessén Collection, illustrated by Karlgren and Wirgin in Chinese Bronzes, Stockholm,
Ostasiatiska Museet, 1969, pl. 2; and in the Sackler Collection, included in the exhibition Selections of
Chinese Art from Private Collections, China Institute, 15 November, 1966 - 15 February, 1967, Catalogue
no. 3. Another similar vessel was unearthed from a Western Zhou site at Zaoyuancun in Changwuxian,
Shaanxi, and is illustrated in Shaanxi Chutu Shang Zhou Qingtongqi (Bronze Vessels Unearthed from
the Shaanxi Province), vol. 4, pl. 160.

The present Fuji Liding published by H.F.E. Visser in Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium, Amsterdam, 1948, pl. 2, no. 2.
本件父己鬲鼎在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中的著錄。

本件鬲鼎内壁鑄有一字族徽，以及「父己」兩字，是為該族的一位名己的父輩所作之意。此族徽十分罕見，已
知僅見兩例。黑川古文化研究所藏有一件鼎，鑄有和此器一樣的族徽和銘文，應為同一人所作，唯銘文磨損較
甚，著錄於巴納、張光裕，《中日歐美澳紐所見所拓所摹金文彙編》，台北，1978年，第八卷，頁 692-93。
東京出光美術館藏有一件與此器十分近似的鬲鼎， 所鑄銘文不同，見《開館十五周年紀念展圖錄》，1981年，
頁235，編號1009。其它近似例可見Nathanael Wessén舊藏一件，載於Karlgren及Wirgin著《Chinese
Bronzes》，斯德哥爾摩， 1969年，圖版 2，以及賽克勒舊藏例，曾展出並載於《Selections of Chinese Art
from Private Collections》，華美協進社，1966年11月15日至1967年2月15日， 圖錄編號 3。陝西省
長武縣棗園村西周遺址出土有一件似例的鬲鼎，載於《陝西出土商周青銅器》，第四冊，圖版 160。

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