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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE 女爵藏品
Lots 55 - 101

55
A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL, ZUN Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 -
Late Shang Dynasty 1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order
Finely cast in relief around the central section of the widely-flaring of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius
cylindrical body with taotie masks featuring prominent bulbous eyes, all IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Maragaretha d’Austria
between two thread-relief bands and a leiwen band at the spreading Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
foot, the tall flaring neck with upright lappets in scrolling leiwen
form, the bronze patinated to a mottled light green with malachite 來源：
encrustation, the interior base cast with an inscription reading ‘Ce zuo 佛朗西斯高•瑪利亞，塔里安利•得•馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968）
Fu Gui zun yi’, which may be translated as ‘Ce made this precious 及馬加烈特•奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利•得•馬基奧女侯爵
vessel for Fu Gui’. （1894-1986）伉儷收藏
25.7cm (10 1/8in) high.
Originally used as ritual wine containers, zun vessels appear to have
£5,000 - 8,000 originated in the late Erligang period (ca. BC 1510-1460). These
CNY45,000 - 71,000 vessels, intended to store wine to sustain ancestors in their afterlife,
were made with either angular shoulders or of beaker shape. Compare
with a similar bronze wine vessel zun, Shang dynasty, from the Victoria
商末 青銅饕餮紋尊 and Albert Museum, London, acc.no.M.50-1954.
「冊乍父癸尊彝」金文鑄款

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