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拍品專文
The interior of the vessel and cover cast with the same nine-part inscription of eight characters and 'clan sign', which read zuo zhong zi ri yi bao zun li
The last 'clan' pictogram has been found on other bronzes of other types. See an archaic bronze gui with the same 'clan' pictogram with four other characters reading zhong zi ri yi, illustrated in Chen Mengjia, A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections, Tokyo, 1977, Vol.1, p. 230, no. 385.
The last 'clan' pictogram has been found on other bronzes of other types. See an archaic bronze gui with the same 'clan' pictogram with four other characters reading zhong zi ri yi, illustrated in Chen Mengjia, A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections, Tokyo, 1977, Vol.1, p. 230, no. 385.