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An inscribed archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Liding), Late Shang / Early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末 / 西周初 亞鼎

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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

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200,000 - 300,000 USD

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An inscribed archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Liding)

Late Shang / Early Western Zhou dynasty

商末 / 西周初 亞鼎


the deep bowl divided into three lobes each resting on a columnar leg tapering slightly toward the foot, the everted rim set with a pair of plain loop handles, each lobe of the body finely cast with a taotie mask with protruding eyes and horns, flanked by descending serpentine creatures, all against a dense leiwen ground and below a further leiwen band, the interior cast with a single character inscription ya

銘文:


Height 8½ in., 21.6 cm 

C.T. Loo & Co., New York, by 1976.

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leo S. Bing.

Christie's New York, 24th March 2004, lot 107.

American Private Collection. 

Christie's New York, 13th September 2018, lot 1104.


來源

盧芹齋,紐約,1976年已購入

Leo S. Bing 伉儷收藏

紐約佳士得2004年3月24日,編號107

美國私人收藏

紐約佳士得2018年9月13日,編號1104

Chen Mengjia, Meidiguozhuyi jielue de woguo Yin Zhou tongqi jilu [Compilation of Yin and Zhou archaic bronzes in America], Beijing, 1962, no. A49 and R447.

Zhou Fagao, Sandai jijin wencun bu [Supplements of surviving writings from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties], Taipei, 1980, pl. 447.

Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, pl. 102.

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions], Beijing, 1984, pl. 01147.

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jichengshiwen [Interpretations of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], vol. 2, Hong Kong, 2001, no. 1147. 

Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties], vol. 1, Shanghai, 2012, no. 82. 

Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 378, nos 0235-01147 and p. 914, no. 0235.


出版

陳夢家,《美帝國主義劫掠的我國殷周銅器集錄》,北京,1962年,編號A49及R447

周法高,《三代吉金文存補》,台北,1980年,編號447

嚴一萍,《金文總集》,台北,1983年,編號102

中國社會科學院考古研究所編,《殷周金文集成》,北京,1984年,編號01147

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1147

吳鎮烽,《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》,卷1,上海,2012年,編號82

嚴志斌編,《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》,北京,2014年,頁378,編號0235-01147及頁914,編號0235


Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, cat. no. 16.


展覽

《Ancient Ritual Bronzes of China》,洛杉磯郡藝術博物館,洛杉磯,1976年,編號16

Associated with royal power, ding were among the most significant objects produced in China's Bronze Age, legitimizing a ruler's authority to lead the religio-political complex. According to legend, King Yu, founder of the Xia dynasty, cast nine large bronze ding, one for each of the nine provinces in his kingdom. This form, which continuously evolved over the centuries, derived from pottery tripod vessels made in the preceding Neolithic period. Used during ritual ceremonies as food or cooking vessels, ding continued to play an important role in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, as evidenced by the large numbers found in royal tombs. The tomb of Fu Hao in Anyang, for example, contained over twenty-six vessels of this type.


The design of such large taotie masks covering the globular lobed body of the vessel, and featuring protruding eyes, raised curled horns and curved fangs, is a motif most frequently found in the Shang/Western Zhou transitional period. Excavations in 1984 of tomb M1713 in Anyang, Henan, revealed a liding of similar design, the Ya Yu Ding, recorded in the Institute of Archaeology CASS, Yinxu xin chutu qingtongqi [Ritual bronzes recently excavated in Yinxu], Beijing, 2008, pl. 196. See also four similarly decorated lobed vessels, illustrated in Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Cambridge, 1987, nos 93-95. 


See an early Western Zhou liding cast with the same single ya character as the present bronze in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Shanghai, vol. 1, 2012, pl. 81. See also a late Shang dynasty ding with the same inscription, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated in ibid., pl. 79; and another late Shang dynasty fangding excavated in a Shang dynasty tomb in Anyang, illustrated in ibid., pl. 78.