LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC

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A SMALL BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC
The deep body is raised on three columnar legs and is decorated around the sides with leiwen-filled triangles pendent from a band of birds alternating with raised whorl bosses, all reserved on a leiwen ground and below a pair of bail handles that rise from the rim. A two-character clan sign, ya Bi, is cast in the center of the interior. The bronze has an attractive olive-green patina with some minor encrustation and traces of black inlay in the recessed areas. Together with a line drawing of the present lot by Hongwei Dong.
6 ¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

来源

C.T. Loo & Co., New York.
Christie's New York, 10 December 1987, lot 2.
Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 325.

出版

Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (In Shu seidoki bunrui zuroku; A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections), Tokyo, 1977, nos. A21 (illustration) and R128 (inscription).
Zhou Fagao, Sandaijijin wencun bu (Supplements of surviving writings from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties), Taipei, 1980, no. 128 (inscription only).
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, no. 277 (inscription only).
The Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yinzhou jinwen jicheng (Compendium of Yin and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions), Beijing, 1984, no. 1398 (inscription only).
Wang Tao and Liu Yu, A Selection of Early Chinese Bronzes with Inscriptions from Sotheby's and Christie's, Shanghai, 2007, no. 29.
R. A. Pegg and Lidong Zhang, The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pp. 40-41, no. 3.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Compendium of Inscriptions and Images of Bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties), Shanghai, 2012, vol. 1, p. 412, no. 523.

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Olivia Hamilton

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拍品专文

The clan sign consists of a ya cruciform shape and the name Bi. In the Shang dynasty, clans with the ya added to their clan names are believed to be those that were conferred with the title of Marquis. The same clan sign can be found on a massive ding vessel and five nao bells from the Fu Hao tomb, illustrated in Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang, Beijing, 1980, p. 41, fig. 28 and pl. LXII (1), respectively. According to archaeologists, ibid, p. 234, "those bronzes bearing ya Bi and ya Qi clan signs (found in the Fu Hao tomb) are probably tributes from local polities and clans". The close connection between the ya Bi clan and the Shang royal family as seen by these tributes, and the massive size of ya Bi ding found in the Fuhao tomb demonstrate the power and wealth of the ya Bi clan.

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-12TH CENTURY BC

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