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INSCRIPTION
– A three-character inscription inside the vessel reads: “X Fu Yi”,
“Father Yi of X (clan name)”.
PROVENANCE
– Private Collection, Japan.
– Deydier Ch. / Oriental Bronzes Ltd, London, UK, before 1998.
– Count & Countess Paul Lippens Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 1998.
EXHIBITED
– Deydier Ch. / Oriental Bronzes Ltd, L’Art et la matière, Paris,
nd
Oct. 2 – Nov. 30 1998, cat. no. 5.
th
PUBLISHED
– Deydier Ch., L’Art et la matière, Paris 1998, cat. no. 5.
SIMILAR EXAMPLES
– A similar ding, but without the upper frieze, is published by Soper A.,
Early, Middle and Late Shang: A Note, Artibus Asiae, vol. 28,
1966, fig. 11.
– Another similar ding is published in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji –
2 – Shang, Beijing 1997, p. 37 no. 37.
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