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1106
A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE 晚商ǎՌ元ע十ˏˠ紀ǎ青銅Ḍ
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
銘文 友 ḍⅨ妣止母
An inscription, you yang fu gui bi zhi mu (You Yang [made this vessel] for Fu
Gui's respected deceased mother), is cast beneath the handle.
Ϝ源
7¡ in. (19 cm.) high 中४藝術館
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年
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$30,000-50,000
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年
編號
PROVENANCE:
China House of Arts, New York, 1985.
LITERATURE:
S. Tzen, Archives Ancient Chinese Arts, New York, 1985, no. 3.
Two closely related jue bearing the same inscription, but with characters
organized in slightly different configurations, are in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, and illustrated by Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of Bronze
Inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, nos. 4177 and 4176. (Fig.1)

(inscription)

1107

1107
ZHANG YAOWU (B. 1964)
Still Life
The painting depicts an archaic bronze tripod wine
vessel, jue (lot 1106), and a scholar’s rock.
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. (76 x 61 cm.)
Signed Yaowu Zhang and dated 2022
$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist in 2022.

張要武 年生
靜ḵ寫生
Fig 1. Rubbing of the inscription on a closely related jue in the Palace Museum, Beijing. Ϝ源
٫̺故宮博ḵ院藏近Κ例青銅Ḍ銘文拓本 直接㈂自於藝術家
年