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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION
ⱷ1110
A RARE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, ZHI 法४私́珍藏
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNATY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
西周早期ǎՌ元ע十ˏ至十ˠ紀ǎ青銅」
The interior of the vessel and the cover are cast with a three-character
inscription reading fu yi si (Father Yi. Si). 銘文 ḍ̋飤
6æ in. (17.3 cm.) high
Ϝ源
і敦蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
$150,000-200,000
葡萄Ḩ貴族私́珍藏
歐洲私́珍藏
%BHVFSSF拍賣行
巴黎德魯奧
年 月 日
拍品編號
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s London, 17 November 1970, lot 26. ֨ḛ
Private noble collection, Portugal. 羅振玉
Ǘ貞松ਕ集۵遺文❾編ǘ
年
卷中
頁
編號
Une collection européenne; Daguerre, Hôtel Drouot, 29 March 2013, lot 96.
劉體智
Ǘ小校經閣金文ǘ
年
卷
頁
編號
羅振玉
Ǘ˕代吉金文存ǘ
年
卷
頁
編號
LITERATURE:
Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen xubian (Continuation of the Gathering of रˏ萍
Ǘ金文✼集ǘ
臺٫
年
頁
編號
Ancient Writings at the Zhensongtang Studio), 1934, vol. 2, p. 34, no. 2-3. 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
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojinge jinwen (Rubbings of Archaic Bronze Inscriptions at the 號
Xiaojiaojingge Studio), 1935, vol. 5, p. 78, no. 1-2. 劉雨及盧岩
Ǘ近֨殷周金文集錄ǘ
٫̺
年
卷
頁
編號
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. 14, p. 42, no. 1-2. 劉雨及汪濤
Ǘ流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄ǘ
˖海
年
編號
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, p. 3511, 吳鎮烽
Ǘ商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成ǘ
˖海
年
卷
頁
編號
no. 6440.
Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences), ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng (Compendium of Yin
and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions), Beijing, 1992, vol. 11, p. 266, no. 6247.
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, Jinchu Yinzhou jinwen jilu (Compendium of Bronze
Inscriptions Recently Discovered), Beijing, 2002, vol. 3, p. 121, no. 658.
Wang Xiantang, Guoshi jinshi zhigao (A Record of Bronze and Stone
Inscriptions in Chinese History), Qingdao, 2004, vol. 6, p. 1090, no. 108.
Liu Yu and Wang Tao, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronze with Inscriptions
from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, no. 182.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi minwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Compendium
of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties) ,
Shanghai, 2012, vol. 19, p. 286, no. 10423.

A zhi and cover with loop handle of similar proportions and size, but
decorated with narrow bands of confronted birds, unearthed in Chang’an
City, Shaanxi province, and now in the Shaanxi History Museum, is illustrated
in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 5 - Xi Zhou (1), Beijing, 1996, pp. 118 and
38, no. 123. A zhi and cover with loop handle of slightly larger size, but with
decoration of slender bow-string bands, unearthed together with a ladle in
2011 in Suizhou city, Hebei province, and now in the Cultural Heritage and
Archaeological Institute of Hubei Province, is illustrated by Wu Zhenfeng,
Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Complete Collection of
Inscriptions and Images of the Shang and Zhou Bronzes), vol. 19, Shanghai,
2012, p. 401, no. 10574. This zhi from Suizhou city is of oval section, whereas
the current vessel and the example from Chang’an city are of rounded-
rectangular section. Also illustrated, ibid., p. 413, no. 10589, is a zhi and cover
with loop handle also of rounded-rectangular section like the current zhi, but
decorated with narrow bands of stylized dragons.
(inscriptions)