Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Important Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection
An extremely rare pair of archaic bronze ritual food vessels (Ding), Late Shang dynasty | 商末 子龔鼎一對
Auction Closed
September 22, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An extremely rare pair of archaic bronze ritual food vessels (Ding)
Late Shang dynasty
商末 子龔鼎一對
each finely cast with the deep U-shaped body rising from three tall cylindrical legs to an everted rim surmounted by a pair of upright handles, crisply decorated around the exterior with three pairs of taotie masks against a leiwen ground, each detailed with bulging eyes and centered by a vertical flange, all above a row of pendent cicada motifs, both vessels cast to the interior with a two-character inscription in mirror image reading Zi Gong, the surface with light malachite encrustation (2)
銘文：
子龔
Height 6½ in., 16.5 cm
Private Collection.
Christie's New York, 22nd March 1999, lot 188.
來源
私人收藏
紐約佳士得1999年3月22日，編號188
Yu Shengwu, Shang Zhou jinwen luyi [Record of Shang and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 1957, nos 37 and 38.
Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji, [Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, nos 0225 and 0226.
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng shiwen [Interpretations of the compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], vol. 2, Hong Kong, 2001, nos 1306 and 1307.
Wang Guanying, 'Zilongding de niandai yu zilongzushi diwang [The dating of Zi Long ding and the location of the Zi Long clan]', Zhongguo lishi wenwu / Journal of National Museum of China, vol. 5, Beijing, 2006, p. 17, fig. 4.
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, nos 01306 and 01307.
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's Sales, Shanghai, 2007, pls 35 and 36.
Wang Xinyi, ed., Shangzhou tuxingwenzi bian [Catalogue of pictograms from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 2007, pp 371 and 372.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 1, Shanghai, 2012, nos 00466 and 00467.
Yan Zhibin, ed., Shangdai qingtongqi mingwen fenqi duandai yanjiu / The Dating Study of Bronze Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, Beijing, 2014, p. 337, nos 0399-01306 and 0400-01307 and p. 942, nos 399 and 400.
出版
于省吾，《商周金文錄遺》，北京，1957年，編號37及38
嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號0225及0226
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1306及1307
王冠英，〈子龍鼎的年代與子龍族氏地望〉，《中國歷史文物》，期5，北京，2006年，頁17，圖4
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01306及01307
汪濤及劉雨，《流散歐美殷周有銘青銅器集錄》，上海，2007年，圖版35及36
王心怡編，《商周圖形文字編》，北京，2007年，頁371及372
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版4
吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷1，上海，2012年，編號00466及00467
嚴志斌編，《商代青銅器銘文分期斷代研究》，北京，2014年，頁337，編號0399-01306及0400-01307及頁942，編號399及400
Mirroring China's Past. Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2018, cat. nos 22 and 23 and p. 242 (inscription).
展覽
《吉金鑒古》，芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，2018年，編號22及23及頁242（銘文）