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INSCRIPTION SIMILAR EXAMPLES
– A five-character inscription inside the vessel reads: “X Zuo Fu Yi Yi”, – A pan with similar decoration excavated in the 1950s from tomb
“X (clan name) made for Father Yi this vessel” M2 at Baijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, is illustrated in Bagley R.W.,
Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
PROVENANCE Washington D.C. 1987, fig. 57.
– Another pan, but bearing a quite different decor, is published in
– Roger Keverne, London, UK, 2003. Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji – 1 – Xia Shang, Beijing 1996, p. 1165
– Deydier Ch. / Oriental Bronzes Ltd, London, UK, 2003. no. 166.
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 2003.
EXHIBITED
– Roger Keverne, Fine and rare Chinese works of art and ceramics,
Winter Exhibition, London, 6 Nov. 2003, cat. no. 2.
PUBLISHED
– Roger Keverne, Fine and rare Chinese works of art and ceramics,
Winter Exhibition, London 2003, cat. no. 2.
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