View full screen - View 1 of Lot 3619. An inscribed bronze 'Yangqu Hujun' tiger tally set, Northern Wei dynasty | 北魏 陽曲護軍虎符一組 銘文:皇帝與陽曲護軍銅虎符第三、陽曲護軍、銅虎符左、銅虎符右.

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An inscribed bronze 'Yangqu Hujun' tiger tally set, Northern Wei dynasty | 北魏 陽曲護軍虎符一組 銘文:皇帝與陽曲護軍銅虎符第三、陽曲護軍、銅虎符左、銅虎符右

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An inscribed bronze 'Yangqu Hujun' tiger tally set,

Northern Wei dynasty

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北魏 陽曲護軍虎符一組

銘文:

皇帝與陽曲護軍銅虎符第三、

陽曲護軍、

銅虎符左、銅虎符右


the spine inscribed with a twelve-character inscription reading Huangdi yu Yangqu Hujun tong hufu di san ('the Emperor bestows the Protector of the Yangqu Army bronze tiger tally, number three'), on the chest on each side with Yangqu hujun ('the Protector of the Yangqu Army'), and on both halves of the underside with tong hufu you and tong hufu zuo respectively, designating the pieces as 'bronze tiger tally, right' and 'left'


9.6 cm

C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris.

Collection of David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris, coll. nos D.W. 3049.1 and 3049.2.

Sotheby's Paris, 16th December 2015, lot 51.


盧芹齋,巴黎

大維威爾(1871-1952年)收藏,巴黎,收藏編號 D.W. 3049.1及3049.2

巴黎蘇富比2015年12月16日,編號51

Luo Zhenyu, Zengding Lidai fupai tulu [Addition to the Catalogue of official symbols of credentials from past dynasties], Beijing, 1925, p. 16 (line drawing).

Luo Zhenyu, 'HouWei Boling Taishou deng ba hufu taben ba' [Epilogue on the eight tiger tallies of the Later Wei dynasty], Songweng jingao buyi, Beijing, 1925-27 (tally discussed).

Possibly illustrated in Yiqi quanxing ta, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (rubbing).

Possibly illustrated in Ke Changsi, Mizhai jinwen taben [Rubbings of bronze inscriptions from Mizhai], Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (rubbing).

Osvald Sirén, Histoire des Arts anciens de la Chine, vol. II: L'époque Han et les Six Dynasties, Paris and Brussels, 1929-30, pl. 118B (top) (tally illustrated).

Ma Heng, 'BeiWei hufu ba' [Epilogue on Northern Wei tiger tally], Fanjiangzhai jinshi conggao, Beijing, 1977, pp. 128-9 (tally discussed).

Yang Guimei and Jia Nan, 'A Research on the tiger-shaped tallies of the Jin and the Southern and Northern dynasties', Journal of National Museum of China, vol. 238, 2023(5), p. 68, fig. 18 (line drawing).


羅振玉,《增訂歷代符牌圖錄》,北京,1925年,頁16(線圖)

羅振玉,〈後魏博陵太守等八虎符拓本跋〉,《松翁近稿補遺》,北京,1925-27年(虎符論及)

拓本或載於《彝器全形拓》,中央研究院歷史語言研究所,台北

拓本或載於柯昌泗,《謐齋金文拓本》,中央研究院歷史語言研究所,台北

喜龍仁,《中國早期藝術史》,卷2,巴黎及布魯塞爾,1929-30年,圖版118B(上)(虎符圖)

馬衡,〈北魏虎符跋〉,《凡將齋金石叢稿》,北京,1977年,頁128-9(虎符論及)

楊桂梅及賈楠,〈兩晉南北朝虎符考〉,《中國國家博物館館刊》,238期,2023年第5期,頁68,圖18(線圖)