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AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY ARCHAIC 商末 或約公元前1072年 小子□簋
BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (GUI)
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, PROBABLY C. 1072 BC 銘文：
癸巳 賞小子□貝十朋 在上 隹 令伐夷方
finely cast below the rim with a kuilong band centered by
beast masks and interrupted by a pair of loop handles with □□用作文父丁尊彝 在十月四
pendent tabs, the foot with a further kuilong band, the
interior cast with an inscription translating to ‘On the guisi 來源
day Hua rewarded Xiaozi X ten peng of cowries at ShangX. It 愛新覺羅盛昱 (1850-1899) 收藏
was that he had been ordered to mount a military campaign Dr. Ernst Hauswedell，漢堡，1957年12月9日，編號4
against X of Yifang. He used it to make this sacrificial vessel Dr. Ernst Hauswedell，漢堡，1970年5月23日，編號1
to honour Father Ding. At the fourteenth month, ju’ Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019) 收藏
Width 11⅛ in., 28.3 cm

PROVENANCE 出版
Collection of Aisin Gioro Shengyu (1850-1899). 王辰，《續殷文存》，卷上，1935年，頁49
Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 9th December 1957, lot 4. 劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷8，1935年，
Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 23rd May 1970, lot 1. 頁40
Collection of Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019). 羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，卷8，1937年，頁33
赤塚忠，《稿本殷金文考釋》，1959年，頁679
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writings from the Yin dynasty], vol. 1, 1935, p. 49. 北京，1974年，期4，頁263（無圖）
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Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from the 赤塚忠，《中國古代の宗教と文化 : 殷王朝の祭祀》
Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties], vol. 8, 1937, p. 33.
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