An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Zhi), Late Shang dynasty | 商末天黽父癸觶

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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

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25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Zhi)

Late Shang dynasty

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the slender elongated pear-shaped body supported on a tall spreading foot and rising to a flaring mouth, the body cast with two taotie masks in relief, all between double fillets encircling the neck and foot, the interior with an inscription Tianmin fu gui (Tianmin, father Gui), Japanese wood box (3)

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天黽父癸

Height 6¾ in., 17.1 cm

Old Japanese Collection.

Acquired in Tokyo, 2015.

來源

日本舊藏

購於東京，2015年

See two zhi with a similar Tianmin clan inscription as the present bronze, one in National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 19, Shanghai, 2012, no. 10535, the other formerly in the collection of Wu Shifen and Pan Zuying, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in ibid., no. 10539.

An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Zhi), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 天黽父癸觶

An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Zhi), Late Shang dynasty | 商末天黽父癸觶