拍賣筆記 vol.397 佳士得紐約2021：111萬美元售出，藍理捷經手夏皮羅舊藏商代方彝 - Christie’s New York 2021, J.J.Lally, A BRONZE RITUAL Vessel FANGYI, Shang Dynasty, Sold for USD1.11m

帶銘文，通體紅鏽、淡綠鏽。夏皮羅的整體收藏在2014年紐約藍理捷畫廊展銷，這批器物大約在2020、2021年連續在紐約釋放。總體而言，夏皮羅的收藏精準而有品位，是值得學習的一位藏家。

"Inscribed, with overall red and pale green patina/rust. The Shapiro collection as a whole was exhibited and offered for sale at J. J. Lally & Co. (Blue Lally Gallery) in New York in 2014. This group of objects was released successively in New York around 2020–2021. Overall, Shapiro’s collection is precise, discerning, and of refined taste — that of a collector well worth studying and emulating."

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商代晚期 安陽

青銅饕餮紋方彝

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH CENTURY BC

成交價：USD 1,110,000

估價：USD 600,000 – USD 800,000

（估價不包含買家佣金、稅費及其他費用，最終成交價以落槌價為準。）

拍賣日期：2021年3月18日

商代晚期，安陽，公元前12世紀

此方彝呈長方形，器身微收，通體以雷紋為地，高浮雕飾以精美紋飾。器身四面各飾一大型饕餮面，其上為兩相對長尾鳥紋，下為兩側有拱形開口的足部，各飾一回首龍紋。器身及蓋皆以窄條扉棱分隔，扉棱於四角及蓋面重複出現；蓋面四面微凸，各飾倒置饕餮紋，上承多面形鈕。器底內壁及蓋內一壁各鑄有一單一族徽銘文。器表呈斑駁藍綠與乳藍綠色銅鏽，底層為赤銅色（cuprite）。

高 8¾英寸（22厘米）

來源

紐約 Rafi Y. Mottahedeh 夫婦舊藏

Rafi Y. Mottahedeh（1901–1978）遺產，紐約：蘇富比 Parke Bernet 紐約，1978年11月4日，拍品318號

藍理捷（J. J. Lally & Co.），紐約，1992年

紐約 Daniel Shapiro 收藏

文獻

J. J. Lally & Co.，《Chinese Archaic Bronzes, Sculpture and Works of Art》，紐約，1992年，圖版21

D. Shapiro，《Ancient Chinese Bronzes, A Personal Appreciation》，倫敦，2013年，頁86–91及136

J. J. Lally & Co.，《Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The Collection of Daniel Shapiro》，紐約，2014年，圖版10及封面

展覽

紐約，藍理捷畫廊，《Chinese Archaic Bronzes Sculpture and Works of Art》，1992年6月2–27日，展品21號

紐約，藍理捷畫廊，《Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The Collection of Daniel Shapiro》，2014年3月14–4月5日，展品10號

學術說明

方彝作為酒器，乃商代最為珍貴的禮器之一，其出土數量遠少於觚、爵、鼎等常見器型，且多見於規格更高的墓葬。Rawson與Bunker在《Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes》（頁92）中論及，方彝在商代常成對使用，如婦好墓所出（見《殷墟婦好墓》，北京，1980年，圖版XVIII:2 及 XIX:1–2）。安陽其他墓葬出土的成套禮器中，亦有僅含單件方彝者。

與本器最為接近的例子，為1983年安陽大司空村M633號墓出土方彝（見《殷墟新出土青銅器》，2008年，頁108–109及頁92–93，圖版24），該墓成套銅器包括方彝、二爵、二觚、二鼎、簋及瓿各一件。其形制、紋飾佈局與本器極為相似。另見Walter Sedgwick夫人舊藏方彝（W. Watson，《Ancient Chinese Bronzes》，倫敦，1962年，圖版18a），以及大都會藝術博物館Ernest Erickson收藏方彝（M. Hearn，《Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection》，紐約，1987年，頁28–29）。上述諸器紋飾相近而非完全相同，皆為商代晚期安陽地區典型精品。

A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, FANGYI

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH CENTURY BC

Price realised

USD 1,110,000

Estimate

USD 600,000 – USD 800,000

Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.

Closed: 

18 Mar 2021

A VERY RARE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, FANGYI

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH CENTURY BC

The slightly tapering, rectangular vessel is cast in crisp, high relief on a leiwen ground on each side with a large taotie mask set between two confronted, long-tailed birds above and two dragons with backward-turned heads on either side of an arched opening on the foot below, all divided by narrow, notched flanges repeated at the corners and also on the cover where the taotie masks are inverted on each slightly convex side below the faceted finial. A single pictogram is cast in the interior base of the vessel and on one interior wall of the cover and may be read as a clan sign. The surface has a mottled blue-green and milky blue-green patination on a cuprite ground.

8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high

PROVENANCE

The collection of Mr. & Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, New York.

Property from the Estate of Rafi Y. Mottahedeh (1901-1978), New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 4 November 1978, lot 318.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1992.

The collection of Daniel Shapiro, New York.

LITERATURE

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, Chinese Archaic Bronzes, Sculpture and Works of Art, New York, 1992, no. 21.

D. Shapiro, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, A Personal Appreciation, London, 2013, pp. 86-91 and 136.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The Collection of Daniel Shapiro, New York, 2014, no. 10 and cover.

EXHIBITED

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Chinese Archaic Bronzes Sculpture and Works of Art, 2 - 27 June 1992, no. 21.

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Chinese Archaic Bronzes: The Collection of Daniel Shapiro, 14 March - 5 April 2014, no. 10.

Fangyi, which were wine containers, appear to have been one of the most prized of ritual vessels of the Shang dynasty, as thay have been found in fewer and more sumptuous tombs than more common shapes such as gu, jue and ding. In Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, p. 92, J. Rawson and E. Bunker, in their discussion of the fangyi, note that during the Shang dynasty vessels of this rare type were used in pairs, as seen in the tomb of Fu Hao, illustrated in Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang, Beijing, 1980, pls. XVIII (2) and XIX (1 and 2). Sets of ritual bronzes found in several other tombs at Anyang include a single fangyi. The most similar of these fangyi is the one found in 1983 in Tomb M633 at Dasikong, Anyang, illustrated in Ritual Bronzes Recently Excavated in Yinxu, Yinxu, 2008, pp. 108-109 and pp. 92-93, pl. 24, illustrating the set of bronzes, which includes the fangyi, two jue, two gu, two ding, a gui and a pou. The shape of the Fu Hao and Dasikong fangyi and the decoration and its placement are similar to that of the present vessel. Another similarly decorated fangyi of similar form, from the collection of Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, is illustrated by W. Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962, pl. 18a. See, also, the fangyi illustrated by M. Hearn, Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, pp. 28-29. On all of the vessels the motifs are similar, but not identical.