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拍品專文
The inscription consists of a canine graph placed above the characters, 'Father Bing.'
The liding, a tripod ceremonial food vessel, is one of the classic early bronze types. Similar liding have been excavated and are also in museum collections. Two similar vessels are illustated by R.W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, DC and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 486-91, nos. 93 and 94, and several other similar examples are illustrated pp. 488-9, figs. 93.2-93.7. Another is illustrated by S. Owyoung in Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 1997, pp. 64-5, no. 11.
The liding, a tripod ceremonial food vessel, is one of the classic early bronze types. Similar liding have been excavated and are also in museum collections. Two similar vessels are illustated by R.W. Bagley in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, DC and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 486-91, nos. 93 and 94, and several other similar examples are illustrated pp. 488-9, figs. 93.2-93.7. Another is illustrated by S. Owyoung in Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 1997, pp. 64-5, no. 11.