AN IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (GUI), WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

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September 23, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

AN IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL (GUI)

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

西周侁簋

well cast with the compressed body resting on a tall splayed foot, decorated below the gently everted rim with a band of two pairs of stylized confronting birds against a leiwen ground, centered by beast masks in high relief and interrupted by a pair of loop handles issuing from horned animal heads and set with pendent tabs, the foot similarly decorated with a band of confronting birds, the interior with a six-character inscription reading zuo fu yi bao gui shen, the surface with an attractive malachite encrustation

銘文：

作父乙寶簋侁

Width 11⅝ in., 29.5 cm

Collection of A. F. Glathe.

Collection of William A. Klink (1923-2019), acquired prior to 1947, and thence by descent.

來源

A. F. Glathe 收藏

威廉姆•克林克 (1923-2019) 收藏，得於1947年之前，此後家族傳承

Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 7, 1935, p. 28.

Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties], vol. 6, 1937, p. 33.

Chen Mengjia, Meidiguozhuyi jielue de woguo Yin Zhou tongqi jilu [Compilation of Yin and Zhou archaic bronzes in America], Beijing, 1962, no. A189.

Zhou Fagao, Sandai jijin wencun bu [Supplements of surviving writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties] Taipei, 1980, no. 297.

Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, no. 2158.

Wang Xiantang, Guoshi jinshizhi gao [Manuscript of archaic bronze in Chinese history], Qingdao, 2004, no. 1523.1.

Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 03510.

Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 9, Shanghai, 2012, no. 04287.

出版

劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷7，1935年，頁28

羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，卷6，1937年，頁33

陳夢家，《美帝國主義劫掠的我國殷周銅器集錄》，北京，1962年，編號A189

周法高，《三代吉金文存補》，台北，1980年，編號297

嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號2158

王獻唐，《國史金石志稿》，青島，2004年，編號1523.1

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03510

吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷9，上海，2012年，編號04287