Early Chinese Art from the Eberhardt Collection

Early Chinese Art from the Eberhardt Collection

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A superb inscribed archaic bronze 'animal mask' food vessel (ding), Shang dynasty, 12th century BC 商公元前十二世紀 青銅獸面紋鼎

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A superb inscribed archaic bronze 'animal mask' food vessel (ding),

Shang dynasty, 12th century BC

商公元前十二世紀 青銅獸面紋鼎


a pictograph beneath the rim on the interior depicting a vessel between a pair of hands, probably reading zun

h. 19 cm


內口沿下有一象形符號,應為「尊」

Anyang, Henan province, by repute.

T.Y. King, Shanghai, 1948.

Collection of S.E. Alexandre J. Argyropoulos (1894-1978), a descendant of a renowned Byzantine family from Constantinople with roots going back to the 9th century, the Greek ambassador to China after World War II

J.J. Lally, New York, 12th April 1996.

Collection of Julius Eberhardt (1936-2012), Vienna.


傳河南安陽

金從怡,上海,1948年

第二次世界大戰後希臘駐華大使阿基洛珀斯(1894-1978年)收藏,君士坦丁堡拜占庭望族後裔,家族史可上溯至九世紀

藍理捷,紐約,1996年4月12日

朱利思.艾伯哈特(1936-2012年)收藏,維也納

Regina Krahl, Sammlung Julius Eberhardt/Collection Julius Eberhardt, Hong Kong, n.d. (1999), cat. no. 35.


康蕊君,《Sammlung Julius Eberhardt/Collection Julius Eberhardt》,香港,未刊出版年份(1999年),編號35

Mostra d’Arte Cinese/Exhibition of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 33.


《Mostra d'Arte Cinese/Exhibition of Chinese Art》,總督宮,威尼斯,1954年,編號33