A LARGE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA

LATE SHANG DYNASTY

細節

A LARGE ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA
Late Shang Dynasty
The body raised on three tall blade supports and cast in shallow relief with three taotie masks, each centered on a slender flange and reserved on a leiwen ground, below two bowstring bands encircling the wide neck below the flared rim, with a loop handle surmounted by a bovine mask projecting from one side, a pair of rectangular posts rising from the mouth rim surmounted by mushroom-cap finials cast with a whorl pattern of commas lightly cast with scale pattern, with a single pictograph, ni, cast in the center of the interior, some malachite encrustation
14.1/8in. (35.5cm.) high

來源

The Arthur M. Sackler Collections

出版

Kenneth E. Foster, A Handbook of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Claremont, California, 1949, rev. ed., no. 15
Yu Xingwu, Shang Zhou jinwen luyi, Beijing, 1957, 282 (inscription only)
Bernhard Karlgren, "Some Characteristics of the Yin Art", B.M.F.E.A., No. 34, Stockholm, 1962, pl. 34a
Noel Barnard, Archaic Chinese Bronzes in Australian and New Zealand Collections, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1975, p. 26, no. 16 (drawing)
Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (In Shu seidoki bunrui zuroku) (A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections), 2 vols., Tokyo, 1977, A309
Noel Barnard and Kwong-yue Cheung, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American and Australian Collections, Taipei, 1978, 987 (inscription only)
Robert W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987, no. 9

展覽

Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, The Auspicious Dragons in Chinese Decorative Art, 1978, no. 1

拍品專文

Robert Bagley in his entry for this bronze, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, no. 9, notes that the pictogram is transcribed by the character ni "to hide". He suggests that the jia "may have been cast as part of a set together with two other vessels similarly inscribed, a jue, and a zun." He illustrates the pictograph on each of these vessels, figs. 9.1 and 9.2, as well as the zun, which is in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lidow, Los Angeles

An analysis by Conservation and Technical Services Ltd., University of London, is consistent with the dating of this lot