An important documentary archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui)

Late Shang dynasty, probably c. 1072 BC

商末 或約公元前1072年 小子□簋

finely cast below the rim with a kuilong band centered by beast masks and interrupted by a pair of loop handles with pendent tabs, the foot with a further kuilong band, the interior cast with an inscription translating to ‘On the guisi day Hua rewarded Xiaozi X ten peng of cowries at ShangX. It was that he had been ordered to mount a military campaign against X of Yifang. He used it to make this sacrificial vessel to honour Father Ding. At the fourteenth month, ju’

銘文：

癸巳 ??賞小子□貝十朋 在上□（?五酉） 隹??令伐夷方? □□用作文父丁尊彝 在十月四 舉

Width 11 ? in., 28.3 cm

Collection of Aisin Gioro Shengyu (1850-1899).

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 9th December 1957, lot 4.

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 23rd May 1970, lot 1.

Collection of Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019).

來源

愛新覺羅盛昱 (1850-1899) 收藏

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell，漢堡，1957年12月9日，編號4

Dr. Ernst Hauswedell，漢堡，1970年5月23日，編號1

Sammlung Gottfried Hertel (1925-2019) 收藏