Important Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection
An extremely rare pair of archaic bronze ritual food vessels (Ding), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 子龔鼎一對
Auction Closed
September 22, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An extremely rare pair of archaic bronze ritual food vessels (Ding)
Late Shang dynasty
商末 子龔鼎一對
each finely cast with the deep U-shaped body rising from three tall cylindrical legs to an everted rim surmounted by a pair of upright handles, crisply decorated around the exterior with three pairs of taotie masks against a leiwen ground, each detailed with bulging eyes and centered by a vertical flange, all above a row of pendent cicada motifs, both vessels cast to the interior with a two-character inscription in mirror image reading Zi Gong, the surface with light malachite encrustation (2)
銘文：
子龔
Height 6½ in., 16.5 cm
Private Collection.
Christie's New York, 22nd March 1999, lot 188.
來源
私人收藏
紐約佳士得1999年3月22日，編號188
Mirroring China's Past. Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2018, cat. nos 22 and 23 and p. 242 (inscription).
展覽
《吉金鑒古》，芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，2018年，編號22及23及頁242（銘文）
Yu Shengwu, Shang Zhou jinwen luyi [Record of Shang and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 1957, nos 37 and 38.
Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji, [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, nos 0225 and 0226.
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng shiwen [Interpretations of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], vol. 2, Hong Kong, 2001, nos 1306 and 1307.
Wang Guanying, 'Zilongding de niandai yu zilongzushi diwang [The dating of Zi Long ding and the location of the Zi Long clan]', Zhongguo lishi wenwu / Journal of National Museum of China, vol. 5, Beijing, 2006, p. 17, fig. 4.
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, nos 01306 and 01307.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pls 35 and 36.
Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 2007, pp 371 and 372.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 1, Shanghai, 2012, nos 00466 and 00467.
Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 337, nos 0399-01306 and 0400-01307 and p. 942, nos 399 and 400.
出版
于省吾，《商周金文錄遺》，北京，1957年，編號37及38
嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號0225及0226
中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成釋文》，卷2，香港，2001年，編號1306及1307
王冠英，〈子龍鼎的年代與子龍族氏地望〉，《中國歷史文物》，期5，北京，2006年，頁17，圖4
中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，北京，2007年，編號01306及01307
汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，圖版35及36
王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，頁371及372
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版4
吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷1，上海，2012年，編號00466及00467
嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北京，2014年，頁337，編號0399-01306及0400-01307及頁942，編號399及400
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