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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 12, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Chinese Art | 183 | $****** - ****** | AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL (ZUN) |
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34.6 cm (13.63 in)
Nagao Art Museum, Tokyo.
Japanese Private Collection.
Chugoku In-Shu Doki Ten [Chinese Shang Zhou Bronzes Exhibition], Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1958, cat. no. 19.
Yu Shengwu, Shang Zhou jin wen luyi [Record of Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions], Beijing, 1957, no. 189 (inscription).
Seiichi Mizuno, In-Shu Seidoki to Gyoku [Yin and Zhou Bronzes and Jades] Tokyo, 1959, pl. 82, fig. 70g (inscription).
Umehara Sueji, Shina Kodo Seika [Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes], vol. 2, Tokyo, 1960, pl. 138.
Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu 12 Chugoku (1) In, Shu, Sengoku [Collection of World's Art. China (1). Shang, Zhou, Warring States] , vol. 12, Tokyo, 1962, pl. 23.
Kunio Fujita, In Teikoku Chugoku Kodai no Bijutsu [Shang Empire Chinese Ancient Art], Tokyo, 1962, pl. 88.
Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australasian Collections, vol. 7, Taipei, 1978, p. 778, no. 1273 (inscription).
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], Taipei, 1983, no. 4544.
Minao Hayashi, Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu / Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration: A Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels, vol. II, Tokyo, 1986, pl. 45.
Institute of Archaeology, CASS, ed., Yin Zhou Jinwen Jicheng [Compendium of Bronze Inscriptions from Yin and Zhou Dynasties], Beijing, 2007, pl. 05444 (inscription).
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from Shang and Zhou Dynasties], vol. 20, Shanghai, 2012, no. 11248.
of cylindrical form, superbly cast with a subtly rounded midsection set above a spreading foot and surmounted by a trumpet neck, recessed horizontal bands separating each section and four vertical notched flanges dividing the foot and midsection into quadrants, the foot and midsection each cast in high relief with two pairs of dissolved taotie masks staring outward and kuilong crawling alongside the flanges, further kuilong marching around the trumpet neck and extending their slender bodies to border the arched blades ascending toward the rim, a pendent cicada positioned at the pinnacle of each blade, the creatures' bodies and the ground both covered with a fine leiwen pattern, the interior of the base cast with two large characters reading luo jing, wood stand, two Japanese wood boxes, handwritten description label by Kunio Fujita, senior curator for Asian Art, Tokyo National Museum, circa 1960 (6)
