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The Tian Min Fu Yi Fang Ding, Late Shang dynasty | 商末 天黽父乙方鼎

Auction Closed

September 20, 02:17 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Tian Min Fu Yi Fang Ding

Late Shang dynasty

商末 天黽父乙方鼎


cast to the interior with a four-character inscription reading Tian Min fu yi


銘文:

天黽父乙


Height 9 in., 22.8 cm

Étude Boisgirard & A. de Heeckeren, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1980.

Offered at Sotheby's London, 18th June 1985, lot 222. 


Étude Boisgirard & A. de Heeckeren,德魯奧拍賣行,巴黎,1980年

上拍於倫敦蘇富比1985年6月18日,編號222

Wu Dacheng, Kezhai jigulu [Record of antiques collected by Kezhai], vol. 3, 1896, p. 9.

Luo Zhenyu, Yin wen cun [Surviving inscriptions from the Yin dynasty], vol. 1, 1917, p. 5.

Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiao Jingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiao Jingge], vol. 2, 1935, p. 14. 

Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wen cun [Surviving inscriptions from the Three Dynasties], vol. 2, 1937, p. 37.

Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, no. 1170.

Christian Deydier, Les Bronzes Chinois / Chinese Bronzes, Fribourg, 1980, pl. 2.

Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, no. 0557.

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. 1555.

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 01555.

Wang Tao and Liu Yu, Liusan oumei yinzhou youming qingtongqi jilu / A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pl. 42.

He Jingcheng, Shangzhou qingtongqi zushi mingwen yanjiu [Study of the clan pictograms on the bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Jinan, 2009, p. 646 (vessel recorded).

Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtong qi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of important inscriptions and images of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 2, Shanghai, 2012, no. 01116.  


吳大瀓,《愙齋集古錄》,卷3,1896年,頁9

羅振玉,《殷文存》,卷1,1917年,頁5

劉體智,《小校經閣金文拓本》,卷2,1935年,頁14

羅振玉,《三代吉金文存》,卷2,1937年,頁37

巴納及張光裕,《中日歐美澳紐所見所拓所摹金文彙編》,台北,1978年,編號1170

戴克成,《Les Bronzes Chinois》,弗里堡,1980年,圖版2

嚴一萍,《金文總集》,台北,1983年,編號0557

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1555

汪濤及劉雨,《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》,上海,2007年,編號42

中國社會科學院考古研究所編,《殷周金文集成》,北京,2007年,編號01555

何景成,《商周青銅器族氏銘文研究》,濟南,2009年,頁646(器記錄)

吳鎮烽,《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》,卷2,上海,2012年,編號01116

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