青銅筆記 vol.47 藍理捷、思源堂：西周早期提梁卣，「X作父丁寶尊彝史」 - J.J.Lally, Sze Yuan Tang, An Archaic Bronze Wine Vessel And Cover (You)，Early Western Zhou Dynasty

此件西周早期提梁卣造型典雅、鳳鳥紋呈現商末西周早期的姿態，器內鑄有「X作父丁寶尊彝史」銘文。這件提梁卣是藍理捷（J.J. Lally）2006年展覽，思源堂（Sze Yuan Tang）2010年紐約佳士得以36.25萬美元售出的西周早期青銅酒器。銘文可釋為：「X為父丁作此寶貴的尊彝」。史，在商代銘文經常出現，貫穿西周，目前共識為負責書記的史官。

This Early Western Zhou Dynasty bronze you (wine vessel) features an elegant form, with phoenix-bird motifs rendered in the characteristic style transitional from the late Shang to the early Western Zhou period. The interior base is cast with a seven-character inscription reading “X zuo fu ding bao zun yi shi.” This you is an important Early Western Zhou bronze wine vessel that was exhibited by J.J. Lally in 2006 and subsequently sold by Sze Yuan Tang (思源堂) at Christie’s New York in 2010 for US$362,500.

The inscription may be translated as: “X made this precious sacred vessel (bao zun yi) for Father Ding. Shi.” In Shang and Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, the character “史” (shi) frequently appears. It is generally understood to refer to a scribe or court official responsible for recording and documenting affairs.

青銅提梁卣

西周早期，公元前11世紀晚期至10世紀早期

器呈梨形，截面為橢圓形。腹部兩側以凸起的角狀寬帶分為四區，帶交界處飾以菱形乳釘。頸部下方飾一周浮雕冠鳥紋，長尾飄逸，以雷紋為地，兩兩相對，中央朝向頸基部的獸面。圈足飾以相似冠鳥紋帶，中央起扉棱，並有簡化饕餮紋。蓋呈穹隆狀，蓋沿飾相配的冠鳥紋，上承杯形鈕，鈕兩端各有一小孔，鈕沿呈廊式，與器足邊沿呼應。

提梁呈拱形，上部浮雕長形蟬紋，蟬身為勾卷紋，觸角捲曲，以雷紋為地，其間飾三枚菱形乳釘。提梁兩端為瓶角龍首，龍首覆於器頸兩側的豎耳之上。

器表散布深色孔雀石綠色結痂，通體更有明亮的藍綠色斑斕銅鏽。器底內壁鑄有七字陰文銘文。

器高 13 1/2 英寸（34.3 厘米）

通高（含提梁） 14 3/4 英寸（37.5 厘米）

比較資料

與本器形制及紋飾極為相近的一件提梁卣，見哈佛大學藝術博物館藏品，著錄於Jessica Rawson《Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》Vol. IIB，劍橋，1990年，頁491，圖67.3。

另一件極相似之例，原端方舊藏，1935–36年倫敦中國藝術國際展覽會展品第178號，現藏美國堪薩斯城納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館。另有一件尺寸稍小、風格相近之卣，原J. F. H. Menten收藏，現藏蘇黎世瑞特堡博物館，著錄於Brinker & Burkart-Bauer《La Chine Archaïque: Bronzes et Jades Du Musée Rietberg-Zurich》，日內瓦，1987年，頁41，圖23。

另可比較切斯特·戴爾（Chester Dale）與多莉·卡特（Dolly Carter）夫婦舊藏、現藏普林斯頓大學藝術博物館的一件相似提梁卣，其紋飾以龍紋取代冠鳥紋，見von Erdberg《Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter》，《Artibus Asiae》增刊XXXV，阿斯科納，1978年，頁80，圖版49a。

Arts of Ancient China

March 27 - April 12, 2006

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER (YOU)

Early Western Zhou Dynasty, late 11th- early 10th Century B.C.

of pear shape and elliptical cross section, the lower body divided into quarters on both sides by raised angular bands embellished with diamond-shaped bosses at the intersections, beneath a frieze of crested birds with long tails cast in relief on a leiwen ground and arranged in pairs confronting a monster mask at the base of the neck, the vertical foot decorated with a very similar frieze centered by a flange and reduced taotie motif, the domed cover cast with a matching frieze of birds around the rim and surmounted by a cup-shaped finial pierced with a small aperture at either end and rising to a galleried edge which echoes the edge of the foot of the vessel, the arched swing handle cast on the top with elongated cicadas with hooked-scroll bodies and curled feelers in relief on a leiwen ground interspersed with three diamond-shaped bosses, the terminals of the handle in the form of bottle-horned dragon heads cast over vertical lugs on the neck of the vessel, the surface with widely scattered dark malachite-green encrustation and brighter mottled blue-green patination overall, the interior base with an inscription of seven characters cast in intaglio. 

Height of vessel 13 1/2 inches (34.3 cm)Height over handle 14 3/4 inches (37.5 cm) 

The inscription may be transcribed as: “x zuo fu ding bao zun yi x” and may be read as: “x made this precious sacred vessel for father Ding.”

A bronze you of closely related form and design, with the same strapwork and diamond-shaped bosses between narrow bands of crested birds from the collection of the Harvard University Art Museums is illustrated by Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Vol. IIB, Cambridge, 1990, p. 491, fig. 67.3. Another very similar example, published in the catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-36, no. 178, listed as from the Tuan Fang Collection, is now in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and another similar bronze you of smaller size, from the Collection of J. F. H. Menten, now in the Rietberg Museum, is illustrated by Brinker and Burkart-Bauer in the catalogue of an exhibition at the Baur Foundation, entitled La Chine Archaïque: Bronzes et Jades Du Musée Rietberg-Zurich, Geneva, 1987, p. 41, no. 23. 

Compare also the bronze you of similar form with dragons instead of crested birds in the decorative friezes, from the collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter, now in the Princeton University Art Museum, illustrated by von Erdberg in Chinese Bronzes  From the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter (Artibus Asiae, supplementum XXXV), Ascona, Switzerland, 1978, p. 80, pl. 49a.

西周早期  青銅卣  通高 37.5 厘米