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

THE ZI KOU JUE
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

cast beneath the handle with a two-character inscription reading Zi Kou
西周初 子口爵
銘文 ：
子口
Height 8½ in., 21.5 cm

⊖ $ 40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Sotheby’s London, 12th June 1990, lot 9. 倫敦蘇富比1990年6月12日，編號9

LITERATURE 出版
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, ed., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu 劉雨及盧岩，《近出殷周金文集錄》，卷3，北京，2002
[Compilation of recently discovered bronze inscriptions], 年，圖版845
vol. 3, Beijing, 2002, pl. 845. 汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, Liusan oumei yinzhou youming 海，2007年，圖版277
qingtongqi jilu / A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes 劉雨等，《商周金文總著錄表》，北京，2008年，編號
with Inscriptions from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Sales, 9066（器記錄）
Shanghai, 2007, pl. 277. 江學旺等編，《西周文字字形表》，上海，2017年，頁
Liu Yu et. al., Shangzhou jinwen zong zhulubiao 31，編號0110
[Comprehensive list of recorded Shang and Zhou bronze
inscriptions], Beijing, 2008, no. 9066 (vessel recorded).
Jiang Xuewang et al., ed., Xizhou wenzi zixingbiao [List
of the characters from the Western Zhou dynasty],
Shanghai, 2017, p. 31, no. 0110.

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