An exceptional and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jia), Late Shang dynasty | 商末䖵崠耒斝

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Description

An exceptional and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jia)

Late Shang dynasty

商末䖵崠耒斝

well cast with the slightly compressed globular body encircled in low relief with a broad band of taotie masks on a leiwen ground bisected by five openwork vertical flanges, below a narrow band of further taotie masks and flanges surmounted by a row of upright cicada motifs, the side set with a loop handle, the gently flared rim set with a pair of finials decorated with further cicada motifs and surmounted by whorled medallions, all supported on three slightly splayed blade-shaped legs decorated to the outer face with elongated cicadas, the interior cast with a complex clan sign comprising three individual characters reading kun, dong, and lei, the surface with malachite encrustation

銘文：

䖵崠耒

Height 10⅜ in., 26.4 cm

Private Collection.

Offered at Sotheby's New York, 31st May 1989, lot 20.

Collection of K’ung Ling-chieh (1921-1996).

Sotheby's New York, 20th September 2000, lot 41.

來源

私人收藏

上拍於紐約蘇富比1989年5月31日，編號20

孔令傑（1921-1996）收藏

紐約蘇富比2000年9月20日，編號41

Liu Yu and Lu Yan, ed., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu [Compilation of recently discovered bronze inscriptions], vol. 3, Beijing, 2002, pl. 916.

Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, no. 312 and col. pl. 15 left.

Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 2007, p. 717.

Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection: Chinese RitualBronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 11.

Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 20, Shanghai, 2012, no. 10934.

Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 753, no. 4495-J916 and p. 1643, no. 4495.

出版

劉雨及盧岩編，《近出殷周金文集錄》，冊三，北京，2002年，圖版916

汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，編號312，彩圖版15左

王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，頁717

彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版11

吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷20，上海，2012年，編號10934

嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北京，2014年，頁753，編號4495-J916及頁1643，編號4495

An exceptional and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jia), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 䖵崠耒斝

An exceptional and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jia), Late Shang dynasty | 商末䖵崠耒斝