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A RARE INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL 西周初 溫弗生甗
VESSEL (YAN)
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY 銘文：
cast to the interior with a six-character inscription reading Wen 溫弗生作旅甗
Fu Sheng zuo lü yan (Wen Fu Sheng made this travel steamer)
Height 13⅝ in., 34.5 cm 來源
傳清道光年間出土於陝西咸陽
PROVENANCE 姜愛珊收藏
Excavated at Xianyang, Shaanxi province, during the 潘祖蔭 (1830-1890) 收藏
Daoguang period (1821-1850) (by repute). 端方 (1861-1911) 收藏
Collection of Jiang Aishan. 山中商會，紐約，1943或1944年
Collection of Pan Zuyin (1830-1890). Sam Salz (1894-1981) 收藏
Collection of Duan Fang (1861-1911).
Yamanaka & Co., Inc., New York, 1943 or 1944. Janet Salz (2015年逝) 收藏
Collection of Sam Salz (1894-1981). 出版
Collection of Janet Salz (d. 2015).
吳式芬，《攈古录金文》，卷1之3，1895年，頁60
端方，《陶齋吉金錄》，卷2，1908年，頁60
LITERATURE
Wu Shifen, Jungulu jinwen [Collection of ancient bronze 盛昱，《鬱華閣金文》，19世紀末 / 20世紀初，頁
inscriptions], vol. 1.3, 1895, p. 60. 255
Duan Fang, Taozhai jijinlu [Catalogue of bronzes from the 鄒安，《周金文存》，卷2，1916年，頁90
Taozhai collection], vol. 2, 1908, p. 60. 孫詒讓，《古籀餘論》，卷1，1929年，頁6
Sheng Yu, Yuhuage jinwen [Bronze inscriptions in the Yuhua 方濬益，《綴遺齋彝器款識考釋》，卷9，1935年，
pavilion], unpublished manuscript, late 19th / early 20th 頁32
century, p. 255.
Zou An, Zhou jinwen cun [Surviving bronze inscriptions of the 劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷3，1935年，頁
Zhou dynasty], vol. 2, 1916, p. 90. 90
Sun Yirang, Guzhou yulun [Some discussions on ancient seal 羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，卷5，1937年，頁7
scripts], vol. 1, 1929, p. 6. 《Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art
Fang Junyi, Zhuiyizhai yiqi kuanzhi kaoshi [Study of the Assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Inc.》，紐約及芝
archaic bronze inscriptions from the Zhuiyi Studio], vol. 9,
1935, p. 32. 加哥，1943年，編號213
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of archaic 馬敘論，《讀金器刻詞》，北京，1962年，頁97
bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 3, 1935, p. 90. 嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號1622
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from the 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成釋
Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties], vol. 5, 1937, p. 7. 文》，卷1，香港，2001年，編號887
Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，
by Yamanaka & Company, Inc., New York and Chicago, 1943,
cat. no. 213. 北京，2007年，編號00887
Ma Xulun, Dujinqi keci [Reading inscriptions from archaic 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷7，上
bronzes], Beijing, 1962, p. 97. 海，2012年，編號03270
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], 張天恩編，《陝西金文集成》，卷10，西安，2016
Taipei, 1983, no. 1622. 年，編號1125
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jichengshiwen [Interpretations 鐘林，《金文解析大字典》，西安，2017年，頁608
of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], vol. （器論及）
1, Hong Kong, 2001, no. 887. 張祖偉，〈山東博物館藏輯佚價值全形拓賞析〉，《
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social 北京文博》，輯2，北京，2019年，頁61，圖5
Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin
and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 00887.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes
from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 7, Shanghai, 2012,
no. 03270.
Zhang Tianen, ed., Shaanxi jinwen jicheng [Compendium of
bronze inscriptions in Shaanxi], vol. 10, Xi’an, 2016, no. 1125.
Zhong Lin, Jinwen jiexi dazidian [Explanatory dictionary
of archaic bronze inscriptions], Xi’an, 2017, p. 608 (vessel
discussed).
Zhang Zuwei, ‘Appreciation of the Full-Form Extension of
Collection Lost Value in Shandong Museum’, Beijing Cultural
Relics and Museums, no. 2, Beijing, 2019, p. 61, fig. 5.
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