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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, JUE The mark under the loop handle could be translated as ‘Yu made
Late Shang Dynasty this for Father of Yi’, which can be found on another bronze jue in
Well cast with an egg-shaped body rising from three blade tapering Shanghai Museum, see Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng (Compendium of Yin
legs, four pictographs cast beneath the loop handle on one side, and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions), Beijing, 2007 no.8879.
reading yuzuo fuyi, and centred on two taotie masks divided by a low
vertical flange on the other side, a band of triangle stylised banana Compare with two bronze jue of similar form and design, both late
leaves rising beneath the flared rim extending towards the edges of the Shang dynasty, which are illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji
mouth rim, two capped upright posts set on the end of spout, with a (The Completed Collection of Chinese Archaic Bronzes), Beijing, 1997,
mottled green patina and some encrustation, box. vol.3, pls.7 and 8.
20.5cm (8in) high. (2).
長流，尖尾，卵圓形底，流根鑄雙立柱，柱頂蘑菇型頭，上飾火紋，半圓
HKD100,000 - 200,000 形鋬，內餘范土，下承三錐形足，口、流、尾下飾蕉葉紋，腹飾饕餮紋，
US$13,000 - 26,000 一側正中出戟呈獸鼻，雲雷紋為地，鋬內壁鑄銘文四字。

商晚期 青銅雨作父乙爵 上海博物館藏一件青銅爵銘文與此爵相同，見《殷周金文集成》，北
京，2007年，編號8879。此類滿工爵杯多出於殷墟地區，參考中國社
銘文：雨乍（作）父乙 會科學院考古研究所藏一件寢出爵及另一件青銅爵，見《中國青銅器
全集》，北京，1997年，卷3，圖版7及8。
Provenance:
Duke’s, Dorset, 22 September 1994, lot 357
Anthony du Boulay, Former Chairman of Christie’s Geneva and the
Chairman of the French Porcelain Society

來源:
英國Duke’s拍賣行，1994年9月22日，拍品編號357
佳士得日內瓦前主席及法國陶瓷學會主席Anthony du Boulay舊藏

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