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A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND
COVER, YOU
Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 10th century BC
The vessel of oval section fitted with a pair of loops attached to the
arched handle ending with animal-mask terminals, cast in shallow relief
on each side with a pair of kui dragons confronting an animal mask,
all reserved on a leiwen band between two rows of circles, the cover
similarly decorated beneath a segmented finial, both the inner body and
cover cast with an eight-character inscription reading Menge Shou zuo
fuyi zunyi, the surface with light malachite and cuprite encrustations.
30cm (11 6/8in) high. (2).

£120,000 - 150,000
CNY1,100,000 - 1,400,000
西周早期，公元前10世紀 青銅夔龍紋獸首提梁卣

The inscription Douge Shou zuo fuyi zunyi 鬥戈 守作父乙尊彝 may
be translated as ‘Shou of Douge made this precious ritual vessel as a
sacrifice for ancestor Father Yi’.

Provenance: 來源：
Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm (1869-1953), KCB, DSO 爵級司令勳章及傑出服務勳章 人Neill Malcolm少將（1869-1953年）
Captain Dugald Malcolm (1917-2000), CMG, CVO, TD 舊藏
Sotheby’s London, The Malcolm Collection: Ancient Bronzes, 聖米迦勒及聖喬治勳章三等勳爵士Dugald Malcolm上尉（1917-2000年）
29 March 1977, lot 17 舊藏
Hartman Rare Art, New York 倫敦蘇富比，「Malcolm收藏中國青銅禮器」專場拍賣，1977年3月
Christie’s London, 10 December 1990, lot 2 29日，拍品編號17
Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 324 紐約古董商Hartman Rare Art
An important European private collection 倫敦佳士得，1990年12月10日，拍品編號2
紐約佳士得，1997年9月18日，拍品編號324
Exhibited: 歐洲重要私人收藏
Dartington Hall, Exhibition of Chinese Art, 9 July- 14 August 1949,
Catalogue, no.1 展覽記錄：
Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes, 1951, Dartington Hall，「Exhibition of Chinese Art（中國藝術展）」，1949
Catalogue, no.70 年7月9日-8月14日，《圖錄》，編號1
倫敦東方陶瓷學會，「Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes（早期中國
Published: 青銅器展）」，1951年，《圖錄》，編號70
Dartington Hall, Chinese Art, 1949, Catalogue, no.1
Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes, 1951, 出版著錄：
Catalogue, no.70 Dartington Hall，《中國藝術展圖錄》，1949年，編號1
Y. Liu and Y. Lu, Jinchu yinzhou jinwen jilu (Corpus of Recently 倫敦東方陶瓷學會，《早期中國青銅器展圖錄》，1951年，編號70
Discovered Inscriptions from the Yin & Zhou Dynasties), vol.3, Beijing, 劉雨，盧岩，《近出殷周金文集錄》，卷三，北京，2002年，頁57，
2002, pl.597, p.57 圖版597
T. Wang and Y. Liu, A selection of early Chinese bronzes with inscriptions 汪濤，劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，
from Sotheby’s and Christie’s sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl.146 圖版146
Z. F. Wu, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Corpus of 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，上海，2016年，卷24，
Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang & Zhou Dynasties), 頁131，圖版13217
Shanghai, 2016, vol.24, p.131, pl.13217

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