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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE TAOTIE-MASK WINE VESSEL, ZUN The inscriptions on the interior can be translated as ‘[a family member]
Early Western Zhou Dynasty made this precious ritual vessel for the Father Ding of the Ju family’.
The slightly bulbous body rising from a spreading foot to a wide
trumpet neck, cast with two opposing taotie masks on a leiwen ground Compare with a closely related bronze zun in the Shanghai Museum,
between two pairs of bow-string bands, the interior of the base cast early Western Zhou Dynasty, which is illustrated by P.F.Chen in the
with eight pictograms, patinated to a dark brownish-green colour, box. Xiashangzhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Xizhou shang (Study of the Archaic
25.3cm (10in) high (2). Bronzes of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties: Vol.I of Western Zhou
Dynasty), Shanghai, 2004, pl.256.
HKD350,000 - 450,000
US$45,000 - 58,000 此器為西周早期典型器，可參考上海博物館藏一件西周早期父辛尊，
見陳佩芬著，《夏商周青銅器研究：西周上》，上海，2004年，圖版256。
西周早期 青銅饕餮紋尊

銘文：□作父丁寶尊彝䀠

Provenance:
Ader, Paris, 10 June 2016, lot 232

來源:
Ader，巴黎，2016年6月10日，拍品編號232

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