商晚期 青銅爵商晚期 青銅爵銘文：田父甲7 3⁄4 in. (19.6 cm.) highDetails A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUELATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BCThe vessel is raised on three blade-form supports, and the sides are finely cast with a band of leiwen motif, attached to one side with a handle emerging from a bovine mask. A pair of posts with waisted caps decorated with a band of cloud whorls rise from the mouth rim. An inscription, tian fu jia (Father Jia of Tian Family), is cast beneath the handle. The bronze has a mottled, milky green patina with malachite encrustation.7 3⁄4 in. (19.6 cm.) high Provenance Collection of Nakakado Hisao, Oita (by repute)Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 2020, lot 619 Literature Saito Etsuzo, To’an, Osaka, 1928, no. 5Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen (Gathering of Ancient Writings at the Zhensongtang Studio), 1930, no. 10.1.3Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun (Surviving Writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties), 1936, no. 16.3.8John Calvin Ferguson, Lidai zhulu jijin mu (List of bronzes in ancient records), 1939, no. 44.300Zeng Yigong, Shangdong Jinwen Jicun (Bronze Inscriptions from Shandong), 1940Minao Hayashi, In Shu Seidoki Soran Ichi (Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes), vol. I, Shanghai, 2013, p. 145 and 416, no. 106