IMPORTANT RÉCIPIENT RITUEL EN BRONZE ARCHAÏQUE, YA CHOU FU XIN GUIFin de la Dynastie Shang/début de la Dynastie des Zhou de l'Ouest, XIème siècle av. J.-C.AN IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, YA CHOU FU XIN GUILate Shang dynasty/early Western Zhou dynasty, ca. 11th century BCheavily cast with a deep rounded body raised on a high splayed foot, rising to a flared rim, the sides set with a pair of handles issuing from streamlined flat-eared bovine heads, and issuing short hooked tabs, the body cast on east side with a largetaotie mask flanked by a pair of taloned and quilled dragons, below a narrow neck band containing two beaked single-bodied dragons centering on a raised animal head in axial position on each side, the foot similarly decorated with two beaked confronting dragons on either side of a ridge with ataotie shield, the inside cast with a four-character inscription reading 'ya chou fu xin', the bronze a smooth, dark brownish-red colour.30cm (11 3/4in) wide; 15.8cm (6 1/4in) high.Provenance: THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品商晚期/西周早期，約公元前十一世紀 亞醜父辛簋Provenance:Collection of Huang Jun (1880-1951), Zungu Zhai, Beijing, by 1936Collection of Hans-Jürgen von Lochow (1902-1989), Beijing, by 1943Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., Hamburg, 5 May 1958, lot 3A German private Collection since 1958, and thence by descentPublished, Illustrated and Exhibited:Huang Jun, Zungu zhai suojian jijin tu , Beijing, 1936, chapter 1, fol.47Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun, Beijing, 1936, chapter 6, fol.17 Gustav Ecke, Sammlung Lochow: Chinesische Bronzen, Beijing 1943, pl.XI a-dYin Chih-yi, 'Shandong Yidu Subutun mudi de Ya Chou tongqi', in Kaogu xuebao, 1977 (2), pp.23-33, p.24, fig.5, and p.25Vadime Elisseeff, Bronzes Archaïques Chinois au Musée Cernuschi. Archaic Chinese Bronzes , Vol. I - Tome 1, Paris, 1977, p.141Yan Yiping, Jinwen zongji (Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions), Taipei, 1983, vol.3, no.1049Minao Hayashi, In Shū Jidai seidōki no kenkyū: In Shū seidōki souran (Research on Bronze ware of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties), Tokyo, 1984, p.94, no.113 Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington D.C., 1990, vol.1, p.362, ngguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo, Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng shiwen, Hong Kong, 2001, vol.3, p.58, fig.3332Shandong Museum, Shandong jinwen jicheng, Jinan, 2007, p.262來源：黃濬 (1880-1951）舊藏，尊古齋，北京，1936年入藏馮洛侯（1902-1989）舊藏，鐃齋，北京，1943年入藏Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co.，漢堡，1958年5月5日，編號3德國私人收藏，1958年入藏，並由後人保存迄今出版：黃濬，《尊古齋所見吉金圖卷》，北京，1936，卷1，圖版47羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，北京，1936, 卷6，圖版17艾鍔風，《鐃齋吉金錄》，北京，1943年，圖版XI a-d殷之彝（张长寿）：《山東蘇埠屯墓地和'亞醜'銅器》，《考古学报》1977年第2期，頁23-33，頁24-25，圖25， 頁25Vadime Elisseeff，《塞努奇博物館藏中國古代青銅器》，巴黎，1977年，卷1，頁141嚴一萍，《金文總集》，臺北，1983，卷3，編號1049林巳奈夫，《殷周時代青銅器的研究》，東京，1984年，頁94，編號113杰西卡·罗森，《赛克勒所藏西周青銅禮器》, 華盛頓...