A rare large inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, Hu, Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周初齊作父乙壺

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A rare large inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, Hu

Early Western Zhou dynasty

西周初齊作父乙壺

cast to the interiors of the cover and vessel with a six-character inscription reading Qi Zuo Fu Yi Zun Yi (Qi made this precious vessel for Father Yi); together with Yu Xingwu, Shuangjianyi guqiwu tulu [Catalogue of ancient objects from the Shuangjianyi], vols 1-2, Beijing, 1940

銘文：

齊乍（作）父乙尊彝

(4)

Overall height 35.5 cm, 14 in.

Reputedly discovered in Baoji, Shaanxi Province during the late 1920s.

Collection of Yu Xingwu (1896-1984).

Acquired in China during the early 1940s.

傳上世紀20年代末於陝西寶鷄縣出土

于省吾 (1896-1984) 收藏

於上世紀40年代初得自中國

Wang Chen, Xuyinwencun [Continuation of the surviving writings from the Yin dynasty], vol. 2, Beijing, 1935, p. 73.5 (inscription of the cover).

Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties], vol. 6, 1937, p. 32.3 (inscription of the cover).

Yu Xingwu, Shuangjianyi guqiwu tuli [Catalogue of ancient objects from the Shuangjianyi], vol.1, Beijing, 1940, pl. 19.

Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, no. 5366 (inscription of the cover).

Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yinzhou jinwen jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions], Beijing, 2007, nos 0502.1 and 0502.2.

Chen Chao-jung, ed., Baoji Daijiawan yu Shigushan chutu Shang Zhou qingtongqi [Shang and Zhou bronzes excavated from Daijiawan and Shigu Mountain in Baoji], Taipei, 2015, pl. 028.

王辰，《續殷文存 - 下》，北京，1935年，編號73.5 (盖銘)

羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，卷6，北京，1937年，編號32.3 (盖銘)

于省吾，《雙劍誃古器物圖錄》，上，北京，1940年，編號19

嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號5366 (盖銘)

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0502.1/2

陳昭容編，《寶雞戴家灣與石鼓山出土商周青銅器》，台北，2015年，編號028

A rare large inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, Hu, Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周初 齊作父乙壺

A rare large inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, Hu, Early Western Zhou dynasty | 西周初齊作父乙壺