An inscribed archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Ding), Late Shang / Early Western Zhou Dynasty | 商末 / 西周初 𠆸父乙鼎

Hartman Rare Art, Inc., New York, 5th June 1984.

Hartman Rare Art, Inc.，紐約，1984年6月5日

The clan sign on the present ding is extremely rare. Only one other example bearing the same pictogram appears to be published. See a late Shang dynasty bronze jue cast with a three-character inscription reading Wu Zu Gui 𠆸祖癸, in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, published in The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, no. 08360.