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11 IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALBERT Y.P. AND SARA K.S. LEE

THE ZHOU ZHI GONG DING
EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

cast with two inscriptions to the exterior of the body reading Zhou zhi gong ding rong wu dou zhong ershi ba jin di ershi yi and
Shan Ling zao; cast with one inscription on top of the cover reading Chang x x erdou ding gai zhong x x x di shisan (2)
西漢初 盩厔供鼎
銘文：
盩厔供鼎 容五斗 重二十八斤 第二十一
長□□二斗鼎蓋 重□□□第十三
山陵造
Width across handles 12⅞ in., 32.8 cm

⊖ $ 40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Duan Fang (1861-1911). 端方 (1861-1911) 收藏
American Private Collection. 美國私人收藏
Christie’s New York, 6th June 1985, lot 111. 紐約佳士得1985年6月6日，編號111

LITERATURE 出版
Wu Dacheng, Hengxuan suojian suocang jijin lu [Archaic 吳大澂，《恒軒所見所藏吉金錄》，1885年，頁105
bronzes in the Hengxuan], 1885, p. 105. 端方，《陶齋吉金錄》，卷5，1908年，頁14-15
Duan Fang, Taozhai jijinlu [Catalogue of bronzes from the 李爾白，《李蔭軒所藏中國青銅器》，卷2，上海，1996
Taozhai collection], vol. 5, 1908, pp 14-15. 年，圖版48
Y.P. Lee, Important Inscribed Ancient Chinese Bronze
Vessels from the Li Yingshuan Collection in the Shanghai
Museum, vol. II, Shanghai, 1996, pl. 48.

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