Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Important Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection
A magnificent and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Hu), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 青銅饕餮紋壺
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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A magnificent and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel (Hu)
Late Shang dynasty
商末 青銅饕餮紋壺
well cast with the pear-shaped body of oval section, the exterior decorated with three principal registers of taotie masks with raised 'eyes' against leiwen grounds, on the broad sides each mask centered by a vertical flange, divided by horizontal registers of stylized kuilong and sinuous creatures with roundels, the neck set with a pair of lug handles decorated with further taotie masks, the tall splayed foot with a band of confronting kuilong and further taotie, the interior of the base cast with a single-character inscription reading ji
銘文：
薺
Height 14⅝ in., 37 cm
Collection of Hans Georg Oeder (1880-1938).
Sotheby's London, 19th June 1984, lot 8.
Eskenazi Ltd., London.
The Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection.
Sotheby's London, 7th June 2000, lot 5.
來源
Hans Georg Oeder (1880-1938) 收藏
倫敦蘇富比1984年6月19日，編號8
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
趙氏山海樓收藏
倫敦蘇富比2000年6月7日，編號5
Carl Hentze, Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in den frühchinesischen Kulturen, Antwerp, 1941, vol. 2, pls XLIV and XLV, nos 92 and 93.
Jessica Rawson, The Bella and P. P. Chiu Collection of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1988, pl. 5.
Liu Yu and Lu Yan, ed., Jinchu Yin Zhou jinwen jilu [Compilation of recently discovered bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2002, vol. 3, pl. 944.
Zhong Baisheng, Chen Zhaorong, and Huang Mingchong, et al., ed., Xinshou Yin Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji qiying huibian [Compendium of inscriptions and images of recently included bronzes from Yin and Zhou dynasties], Taipei, 2006, no. 1930.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, no. 326 and col. pl. 17 left.
Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 2007, p. 273.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], Shanghai, 2012, vol. 21, no. 11974.
Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 779, no. 4693-J944 and p. 1680, no. 4693.
出版
Carl Hentze，《Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in den frühchinesischen Kulturen》，安特衛普，1941年 ，卷2，圖版XLIV及XLV，編號92及93
傑西卡•羅森，《趙氏山海樓所藏古代青銅器》，香港，1988年 ，圖版5
劉雨及盧岩編，《近出殷周金文集錄》，北京，2002年，冊三，圖版944
鐘柏生、陳昭榮及黃銘崇等編，《新收殷周青銅器銘文及器影彙編》，台北，2006年，編號1930
汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，編號326及彩色圖版17左
王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，頁273
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版12
吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，上海，2012年，卷21，編號11974
嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北京，2014年，頁779，編號4693-J944及頁1680，編號4693
Mirroring China's Past. Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2018, cat. no. 18 and p. 241 (inscription).
展覽
《吉金鑒古》，芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，2018年，編號18及頁241（銘文）