Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Property from the Estate of Richard Rubin
Auction Closed
September 21, 06:54 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An inscribed archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Ding)
Late Shang / Early Western Zhou Dynasty
商末 / 西周初 𠆸父乙鼎
cast to the interior below the rim with a three-character inscription reading Wu Fu Yi
銘文:
𠆸 父乙
Height 9⅞ in., 25 cm
Hartman Rare Art, Inc., New York, 5th June 1984.
Hartman Rare Art, Inc.,紐約,1984年6月5日
The clan sign on the present ding is extremely rare. Only one other example bearing the same pictogram appears to be published. See a late Shang dynasty bronze jue cast with a three-character inscription reading Wu Zu Gui 𠆸祖癸, in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, published in The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 08360.