Yongle 21 Autumn Auction, preview will begin on November 28 at the 5th floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing. Although the epidemic of the new crown epidemic has cast a shadow on human society in the past two years, we believe that art can heal people's hearts, and the beauty of religious statues can soothe wounds and bring hope. There are three collector's-grade bronze ceremonial vessels in this auction, which are a collection of essence lots, covering from the late Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty.
【Wuhua Tianbao - Ancient Chinese Art Collection】Special Session
Lot. 3210
Late Shang Dynasty
The Father has been asked
Starting price: 800,000
Caliber: 14cm Height: 24cm Weight: 977g
Description:
Three Generations of Jijin Wencun, Vol. 14. p. 26. No. 2, Luo Zhenyu 1936
The Continuation of the Text, p. 44. No. 7, ed. Wang Chen, 1935
Yin Zhou Jinwen Integration, No. 07133, Academy of Social Sciences, 1984
Jin Wen Zongji, No. 6149, Yan Yiping, 1983
The Golden Stone Chronicle of the History of the Nation, p. 985. No. 1 Wang Xiantang 2004
Shang Zhou Bronze Inscriptions and Image Integration, Vol. 18, p. 295 09596, Wu Zhenfeng, 2012
The abdomen is decorated with gluttonous patterns
Bronze Yao, a vessel used for drinking alcohol in ancient China, dates back to the Neolithic Age, and copper yao appeared in the Shang Dynasty. Merchants are good at wine, heavy ghosts and gods, and do not hold sacrifice ceremonies in the face of military events, and bronze as a banquet wine vessel naturally belongs to an important sacrificial vessel. The Zhou people absorbed the lessons of the demise of Yin Shang, and in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Gongdan issued the "Wine Curse" as the first prohibition order in China, which had a great impact on the types of bronze wine vessels, and bronze wine vessels, especially bronze yao, declined rapidly and were very rare by the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Merchant heavy wine vessels, Zhou Ren heavy food vessels, exquisite bronze wine vessels are basically from the Shang Dynasty, this exquisite and rare bronze Yao is the classic of this period.
This piece of bronze has a large mouth, the neck is retracted downwards, the lower end of the neck is basically the same diameter as the abdomen, the high circle foot, and the lower side has a narrow edge. The neck is phototropic, with two strings underneath. The abdomen is two ridges, and the nose base is symmetrically decorated with two inner curly horn-type animal faces, the animal face is protruding round, and the facial contour is composed of thickened lines, supplemented by cloud thunder patterns. Cloud thunder pattern and main pattern have a tendency to merge. There are two string lines between the abdomen and the foot, and the "+" word hole is opened symmetrically to make it transparent, so that the circle foot should not be rusted. The circle foot pattern is decorated with four points, decorated with an inner curly horn dragon pattern, and the style is the same as that of the abdomen. Bronze yao began to appear from the early Shang Dynasty, and to the late Shang Dynasty, the shape of the instrument continued to become thinner and higher, and the neck and abdomen were gradually tightened, and the diameter of the two tended to be consistent. The decorative patterns range from the simplicity of the early days, to the simplicity of the middle period, and then to the figurative complexity of the peak period, and thus begin to abstract pattern. Judging by the type of instrument and ornamentation, it is a three-stage instrument of the middle period of the late Shang Dynasty and the Yin Ruins. Inside the circle foot is cast a three-character inscription"
Father Himself".
This book was written in the "Three Generations of Jijin Wencun" by Mr. Luo Zhenyu, a modern Chinese epigrapher, linguist, oracle bone writer, and collector of cultural relics. One of the Four Halls of Oracle Bones (namely Luo Zhenyu, Wang Guowei, Dong Zuobin, and Guo Moruo), he is the culmination of modern epigraphy research. "Three Generations of Jijin Wencun" is exactly what he hated.
The bronze vessel is cast with inscriptions from the beginning of the Shang, initially as a single character, and then gradually increased. The three characters of the inscription "Father Himself" can be seen that this yao is an important sacrificial vessel in the late Shang Dynasty, "" is also the family emblem, "father" is the father of the person who made the instrument, and "self" is the Japanese name, that is, the temple number, which means that the person who made the instrument is in honor of "the family's own father".
Luo Zhenyu statue
Lot. 3211
Starting price: 1.2 million
Caliber: 16.9cm Height: 21.4cm Weight: 1926g
Three Generations of Ji Jin Wencun, vol. 3, p. 3, No. 7, Luo Zhenyu, 1936
Jin Wen of the Ancient Records of The Ancient Records of The Ancient Records 1 of 3.43.1, Wu Shifen Twenty-one Years of Qing Guangxu (1895)
The Ancient Records of the Collected Works of Wu Zhai, vol. 6. p. 16. No. 3, Wu Dazheng, 1918
"The Golden Record of Qizhai Ji" 1 Ding 15, Chen Jieqi 1918
Qi Yao Mu Ji Jin Wen Shu 1.15, Liu Xinyuan Qing Guangxu Twenty-eight Years (1902)
Zhou Jin Wencun, vol. 2, p. 63, No. 5, Zou An, 1916
"Interpretation of the Interpretation of the Yi Dynasty", vol. 4, p. 19. No. 2, Fang Maoyi, 1929
Small School Jingge Jinwen, vol. 2, p. 41, No. 7, Liu Tizhi, 1935
Yin Zhou Jinwen Integration, 02168, Academy of Social Sciences, 1984
The Collected Works of Jin Wen, 0772, Yan Yiping, 1983
Shang Zhou Bronze Inscriptions and Image Integration, vol. 3, p. 293 01624 Wu Zhenfeng 2012
The abdomen is decorated with animal face patterns
Merchants value ghosts and gods, worship ancestors and various gods of nature. Merchants believed that offering sacrifices to ancestral gods would wait for protection, so the most important job of Emperor Yin Shang was to sacrifice the gods of heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, and ancestors. And this beast face pattern is an important ceremonial instrument used for sacrifice.
This is a crotch, straight mouth, two vertical ears on the mouth, a bulging abdomen, and three-column foot. The neck is decorated with oblique angle cloud thunder stripes, and the abdomen pattern area is filled with cloud patterns, divided into three parts, each decorated with two dragon patterns composed of animal face patterns, the beast's eyes are protruding, and the huge animal face is vicious and majestic, which will haunt the mysterious body. On the inner part of the abdomen is cast a six-character inscription "Boyu as Baozun Yi". It can be seen from the inscription that this ding was made by an aristocrat named "Boyu" for the sacrifice of ancestors.
This Ding was originally collected by the late Qing collector Chen Jieqi, and has been included in many books, which was a tool for collectors of gold and stone in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period to appreciate and play.
Inscription: Boyu as Baozun Yi
Lot. 3217
Western Zhou Bo Xun Father Ding
Starting price: 1.6 million
Caliber: 28cm Height: 24.5cm
Three Generations of Ji Jin Wencun, Vol. 3, p. 32, No. 3 Luo Zhenyu 1936
Yin Zhou Jinwen Integration, No. 02514, Academy of Social Sciences, 1984
Jin Wen Collection, No. 1050, Yan Yiping, 1983
Shang Zhou Bronze Inscriptions and Image Integration, vol. 4, p. 259 02080 Wu Zhenfeng 2012
Ding, three-legged and two-eared, food vessel, first pottery and then copper, is the treasure of the five tastes. For three generations, Ding was the treasure of the Zongmiao Temple. From the original cooking utensils, Ding evolved into an important ceremonial instrument for the temple sacrifice, and the Column Ding system was an important component of the Zhou ceremony.
This is a luxury mouth, square lip folded edge, the body is hemispherical, the arc is deep abdomen, a pair of appendages are placed on the shoulders, inverted U-shaped, high out of the mouth, round bottom, three hoof-shaped feet. The neck ring is decorated with a weekly stolen curved pattern, like two simplified dragons, "Lü's Spring and Autumn". The Shiwei Chapter" says: "Zhou Ding has a stolen curved pattern, the shape is very long, and the upper and lower areas are all in the area, so as to see the defeat of the extreme." Inside the vessel is cast three columns of fourteen-character inscriptions: "Father Bo Xun used as a treasure for his sons (sons) and grandsons (grandsons) of the Ten Thousand Years".
Inscription: Bo Xun's father was used as a treasure for his ten thousand years son (son) grandson (grandson) Yongbao
"The former Xia's fang has virtue, distant drawings, nine pieces of tribute, casting elephant objects, and preparing a hundred things for it, so that the people know that the gods are adulterous: the people enter the mountains and forests of Chuanze, and they are not good, and they are enchanted and two, and they cannot meet it." Use energy to cooperate with the upper and lower levels, to inherit the heavens and rest", Yu cast jiuding to determine jiuzhou, symbolizing royal power.
The Book of Rites and Ritual Instruments reads: "Three animals and fish wax, the delicacies of the four seas and nine states ... ... Neijin, Shiwa also". The "Three Years of Zuo Chuan and Xuan Gong" also says: "Cast the ding elephant object, so that the people know that the gods are adulterous... Use energy to cooperate with the upper and lower levels, so as to inherit the heavens and rest." "Shihe" sacrifice also, the descendants of Yongbao, "elephant" kingship also, do not respect the inferior and distinguish the noble. The etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty stipulates that the heavenly son uses nine dings, the princes use seven dings, the doctors use five dings, the soldiers use three dings or one ding, na sacrifices are sacrificed in the zong temple, and the fish is carried in the court, so the ding is the heavy instrument of the country.
"Wuhua Tianbao - Ancient Chinese Art Collection"
Preview time
Preview Time
November 28-30 | 10am-6pm
Auction time
Auction Time
December 1 | 18:30pm
Auction location
Four Seasons Hotel Beijing, 5th Floor, Hall A
(48 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing)