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AN INSCRIBED ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL discovered bronze inscriptions], vol. 2, Beijing, 2002, pl. 165;
WINE VESSEL (LEI) a zun, formerly in the collection of Liu Tizhi (1879-1962) and
LATE SHANG DYNASTY Yu Shengwu (1896-1984), now in the National Museum of
China, Beijing, published in The Institute of Archaeology,
cast beneath each of the handles on the shoulder with a clan Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen
pictogram reading rong jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions],
Height 14⅜ in., 36.4 cm vol. 5, Beijing, 2007, no. 05601; and an early Western Zhou
gui from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, included in Yan
PROVENANCE Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], Taipei,
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1996. 1983, no. 2312.

LITERATURE $ 20,000-30,000
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 14. 商末 戎罍
The single pictogram cast beneath the handles has been 銘文：
interpreted as the character rong 戎, which was the name
of a clan active during the late Shang to early Western Zhou 戎
dynasty. Few extant bronzes from this clan are known, 來源
including a pair of bronze gu from the late Shang dynasty,
excavated in Cangshan county, Shandong province, in 1963, 購於香港，1996年
now preserved in the Linyi Museum, Linyi city, published in 出版
Minao Hayashi, Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu / Studies 彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration: A Conspectus of Yin and
Zhou Bronze Vessels, vol. II, Tokyo, 1984, p. 324, fig. 95; a fang Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版14
ding in the Jinan Museum, Jinan, illustrated in Liu Yu and Lu
Yan, eds., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu [Compilation of recently

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