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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION

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A RARE AND IMPORTANT BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE 法४私́珍藏
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
西周早期ǎՌ元ע十ˏ至十ˠ紀ǎ青銅Ḍ
The interior is cast with a clan sign, peng, followed by fu xin (Father Xin).
銘文 фḍ㏁
8q in. (20.9 cm.) high
Ϝ源
$250,000-350,000
劉體智
舊藏
(FPSHF &VNPSGPQPVMPT
珍藏
英४
PROVENANCE:
Liu Tizhi (1879-1963) Collection. і敦蘇富比
&VNPSGPQPVMPT珍藏 年 月 日
拍品編號
George Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939) Collection, England. 葡萄Ḩ貴族私́珍藏
The Eumorfopoulos Collections; Sotheby’s London, 28-31 May 1940, lot 477. 歐洲私́珍藏
%BHVFSSF拍賣行
巴黎德魯奧
年 月 日
拍品編號
Private noble collection, Portugal. ֨ḛ
Une collection européenne; Daguerre, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March 2013, lot 97.
羅振玉
Ǘ貞松ਕ集۵遺文ǘ
年
卷
頁
編號
劉體智
Ǘ小校經閣金文拓本ǘ
年
卷
頁
編號
LITERATURE:
Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen (Gathering of Ancient Writings at the 羅振玉
Ǘ˕代吉金文存ǘ
年
卷
頁
編號
Zhensongtang Studio), 1934, vol. 10, p. 10, no. 1. रˏ萍
Ǘ金文✼集ǘ
台٫
年
頁
編號
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojinge jinwen taben (Rubbings of Archaic Bronze Inscriptions 中४社會科學院考۵研②所編
Ǘ殷周金文集成ǘ
٫̺
年
卷
頁
編號
at the Xiaojiaojingge Studio), 1935, vol. 6, p. 52, no. 7. 銘文拓本
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun (Surviving Writings from the Xia, Shang, and 王獻唐
Ǘ४史金⊅志稿ǘ
青島
年
卷
頁
編號
Zhou Dynasties), 1937, vol. 16, p. 17, no. 6. 吳鎮烽
Ǘ商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成ǘ
˖海
年
卷
頁
編號
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, p. 毛節新
Ǘ商周金文臨摹★選ǘ
杭州
年
頁 銘文拓本
2229, no. 3902.
Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan kaogu yanjiusuo (The Institute of Archaeology,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng
(Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions), Beijing, 1993, vol. 14, p. 97,
no. 8604 (rubbing of inscription).
Wang Xiantang, Guoshi jinshi zhigao (A Record of Bronze and Stone
Inscriptions in Chinese History), Qingdao, 2004, vol. 4, p. 743, no. 343.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (A Collection
of Inscriptions and Images of Shang and Zhou Archaic Bronzes), Shanghai,
2012, vol. 16, p. 108, no. 7913.
Mao Jiexin, Shang Zhou jin wen lin mo jing xuan (Selected Bronze Inscriptions
of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties), Hangzhou, 2018, p. 32 (rubbing of
inscription).
The inscription cast on the interior of this jue consists of the characters fu xin
(Father Xin) positioned below a large clan sign reading peng. The clan sign
has been interpreted by scholars as a man carrying a string of cowry shells. A
jue cast with very similar decoration and of approximately the same size, and
bearing the same inscription as the present jue, was sold at Christie’s New
York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1219.
The proportions of the present jue are very similar to other jue of early
Western Zhou date including the famous pair in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
cast with designs of crested birds. One of the pair is illustrated in Two
Hundred Selected Masterpieces from the Palace Museum, Beijing, Tokyo
National Museum, 2 January - 19 February 2012, no. 49, and again in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 27 - Bronze Ritual
Vessels and Musical Instruments, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 150, no. 97. The other
jue from this pair is illustrated in Chuka Jinmin Kyowakoku Kodai Seidokiten
(Exhibition of Archaic Bronzes from the People's Republic of China), Tokyo
and Kyoto, 1976, pl. 39. A third early Western Zhou jue of this type cast
around the sides with crested birds was sold at Christie's New York, 13-14
September 2012, lot 1222. Another characteristic these early Western Zhou
jue share is the more slender, rounded handle compared to the broader
handle of jue from the mid to late Shang period.
Taotie similar to those cast on either side of the present jue, which feature
distinctive large horns that curve downwards to flank the mask, can be found
on other vessel forms of early Western Zhou date, including a fangding in
the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu jinghua dachuan
(Highlights of Chinese Archaeological Objects), Hong Kong, 1994, p. 82, no.
292, and another fangding illustrated by d'Argencé, Ancient Chinese Bronzes
in the Avery Brundage Collection, Berkeley, California, 1966, pl. XXIX.
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