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An important documentary archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui), Late Shang dynasty, probably c. 1072 BC | 商末 或約公元前1072年 小子□簋

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An important documentary archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui)

Late Shang dynasty, probably c. 1072 BC

商末 或約公元前1072年 小子□簋


finely cast below the rim with a kuilong band centered by beast masks and interrupted by a pair of loop handles with pendent tabs, the foot with a further kuilong band, the interior cast with an inscription translating to ‘On the guisi day Hua rewarded Xiaozi X ten peng of cowries at ShangX. It was that he had been ordered to mount a military campaign against X of Yifang. He used it to make this sacrificial vessel to honour Father Ding. At the fourteenth month, ju

銘文:

癸巳 𢦚賞小子□貝十朋 在上□(㲋五酉) 隹𢦚令伐夷方䍙 □□用作文父丁尊彝 在十月四 舉


Width 11 ⅛ in., 28.3 cm

Collection of Aisin Gioro Shengyu (1850-1899).

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 9th December 1957, lot 4.

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 23rd May 1970, lot 1.

Collection of Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019).


來源

愛新覺羅盛昱 (1850-1899) 收藏

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell,漢堡,1957年12月9日,編號4

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell,漢堡,1970年5月23日,編號1

Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019) 收藏

Ke Changsi, Mizhai jinwen taben [Rubbings of archaic bronze inscription in the Mizhai], 1931-1941.

Wang Chen, Xuyinwencun [Continuation of the surviving writings from the Yin dynasty], vol. 1, 1935, p. 49. 

Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 8, 1935, p. 40. 

Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties], vol. 8, 1937, p. 33.

Kiyoshi Akatsuka, Gaoben yinjinwen kaoshi [Manuscripts on the study of bronze inscriptions of Yin], 1959, p. 679.

Shen Zhiyu, 'Jieshao yipian fa renfang de buci [Introducing an oracle bone inscription on the battle of Yifang]', Kaogu, Beijing, 1974, no. 4, p. 263 (unillustrated). 

Yan Wan, 'Beijing, Liaoning chutu tongqi yu zhouchu de yan [Bronzes excavated from Beijing and Liaoning and the Yan state in the early Zhou dynasty]', Kaogu, Beijing, 1975, no. 5, p. 277, fig. 4. 

Kiyoshi Akatsuka, Chūgoku kodai no shūkyō to bunka—In Ōchō no saishi [Religion and culture in ancient China—The rituals of the Yin royal court], Tokyo, 1977, reprint, 1990, p. 679.

Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji, [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, no. 2654.

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng shiwen [Interpretations of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], vol. 3, Hong Kong, 2001, no. 4138-9.

Wang Xiantang, Guoshi jinshizhi gao [Manuscript of archaic bronze in Chinese history], Qingdao, 2004, no. 1548. 

Chen Bingxin and Li Lifang, Chutu yizu shiliao jikao [Study of the excavated historical records of the Yi], Anhui, 2005, p. 455. 

The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yinzhou jinwen jicheng[Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 04138.

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Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, vol. 1, Beijing, 2014, p. 0452.

Wei Xinying, 'War against Yifang in the 15th Year of Dixin's Reign Recorded on Late Shang Bronzes in Overseas Collections', Journal of National Museum of China, Beijing, 2015, no. 3, fig. 5-1 and fig. 6.


出版

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