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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, ‘JU FU DING’ YOU
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, ‘JU FU DING’ YOU
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, ‘JU FU DING’ YOU
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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, ‘JU FU DING’ YOU

EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, ‘JU FU DING’ YOU
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH-10TH CENTURY BC
8 5⁄8 in. (21.8 cm.) high
Provenance
A private collection
John Sparks Ltd., London, 1954
H.G.W. Peters
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1999
John J. Studzinski (b. 1956)
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2014
The Meiyintang Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, POWER/CONQUEST: The Forging of Empires, 20 September 2022, lot 16
Literature
Eskenazi, London, Ancient Chinese bronzes from an English private collection, London, 1999, no. 8
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. 1911
Wu Zhenfeng, Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 21, Shanghai, 2012, no. 12067

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Lot Essay

The three-character inscription cast on the underside of the cover and the inside of the vessel, can be translated as Ju Fu Ding, or ‘Father Ding of the Ju clan’, which is frequently found on inscriptions on bronze vessels of the late Shang dynasty and early Zhou dynasties, with a gradual evolution of style.

Compare to a bronze wine vessel, he, cast with the same inscription, in a slightly different style, illustrated by Christian Deydier, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume 1 Annexe, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 56-57, no. 31.

Other archaic bronze you adorned with closely related triple bands are known, including one from the Avery Brundage Collection in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (object no. B60B82), with a handle terminating in rhinoceros heads; and another with a five-character inscription, also with a handle ending with two animal heads illustrated in by Christian Deydier, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume 1 Annexe, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 54-55, no. 30.

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