A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part 1

A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part 1

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An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 父戊爵

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March 22, 07:08 PM GMT

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12,000 - 15,000 USD

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An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Jue)

Late Shang dynasty 

商末 父戊爵


with a two-character inscription beneath the handle reading Fu Wu

銘文：

父戊


Height 7⅝ in., 19.3 cm

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Toeg. 

Sotheby's London, 3rd December 1963, lot 180.

Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997). 

Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1968-present, coll. no. E.4.2. 


Edmund Toeg 伉儷收藏

倫敦蘇富比1963年12月3日，編號180

吳權博士 (1910-1997) 收藏

吳蓮伯博物院，1968年至今，編號E.4.2

Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl. 3.


柯玫瑰等，《Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum》，香港，2011年，圖版3

The inscription indicates this vessel was made for Father Wu. Six other 'Fu Wu' jue are recorded, five of which are published in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, nos 07927-07931; the other was sold in our London rooms, 15th April 1980, lot 10, illustrated in Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl. 268.