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15 THE JU FU YI ZHI
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

cast to the inner mouth with a three-character inscription reading Ju Fu Yi
西周 舉父乙觶
銘文：
舉 父乙
Height 8 in., 20.2 cm

$ 40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Liu Tizhi (1879-1962). 劉體智（1879-1962）收藏
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 2nd July 弗蘭克•卡羅（盧芹齋繼任人），紐約，1963年7月2日
1963. George R. Drysdale 博士（1929-2020）收藏
Collection of Dr. George R. Drysdale (1929-2020).

LITERATURE 出版
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of 劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷5，1935年，頁79，
archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 5, 觶三
1935, p. 79, no. 3.

This bronze vessel belongs to a small group of zhi bearing the same three-character inscription. A plain zhi,
attributed to the Western Zhou dynasty, formerly in the collections of Zhang Tingji (1768-1848) and Luo Zhenyu
(1866-1940), is illustrated in Minao Hayashi, Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu / Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze
Decoration: A Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels, Tokyo, 1986, p. 347, zhi 120; another of a similar form
but cast with a band of serpents around the neck, discovered in Xi’an in 1972, now in the Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, is
published in Zhang Tianen, Shaanxi jinwen jicheng [Compendium of bronze inscriptions from Shaanxi], vol. 14,
Xi’an, 2016, pl. 1633; two other zhi, recorded only by their inscriptions, are published in Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge
jinwen taben [Rubbings of archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 5, 1935, p. 79, nos 1 and 2.

Compare also a bronze zhi of a slightly smaller size, attributed to the early phase of the middle Western Zhou
dynasty, similarly decorated around the neck with a band of taotie against a leiwen ground but with an undecorated
splayed foot, cast with a single pictogram, in the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, published in Wu
Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes
from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 19, Shanghai, 2012, no. 10136.

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