The bulbous mid-section is boldly cast with a wide band depicting taotie masks, set between concentric bands encircling the flaring neck and the spreading foot.
Related bronze zun vessels of this type are held in several important museum collections. A particularly close comparison, matching the present vessel in proportions and decorative scheme, but slightly smaller in size, is illustrated by Jessica Rawson in Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990), pp. 548-549, no. 79, and is dated to the late Shang or early Western Zhou period. Further comparable examples include a zun in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, published in Wenwu, 1995, no. 6, and the renowned Fuxin Zun in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Bronze in the National Palace Museum (Supplement) (Taipei, 1973), no. 23, p. 103. Another related zun decorated with taotie masks framed by concentric bands is illustrated by Rawson, op. cit., vol. IIB, pp. 554-555, while a similarly flared example is published in The Freer Chinese Bronzes, vol. I Catalogue (Washington, D.C., 1967), pp. 78-82.
A similar Zun sold at Christie's New York, 10/11/2015, lot 21; also see another comparable example sold Sotheby's New York, 22/3/2022, lot 103.
商晚期至西周早期，公元前12至前10世紀 青銅饕餮紋尊
同類青銅尊器見於多家重要博物館收藏。其中一件與本器形制比例及紋飾佈局極為相近而尺寸稍小之例，著錄於 Jessica Rawson《Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》，第 IIB 冊（麻薩諸塞州劍橋，1990年），頁548-549，編號79，並斷代為商晚期至西周早期。其他可資比較之例包括陝西省博物館藏尊，發表於《文物》1995年第6期；以及臺北國立故宮博物院藏著名「父辛尊」，收錄於《Masterworks of Chinese Bronze in the National Palace Museum (Supplement)》（臺北，1973年），編號23，頁103。
此外，Arthur M. Sackler 收藏中另有一件相近尊器，其饕餮紋飾置於同心弦紋帶之間，亦載於 Rawson 前述著作，第 IIB 冊，頁554-555。另可參考華盛頓 Freer Gallery of Art 收藏之一件敞口尊，其形制相若，著錄於《The Freer Chinese Bronzes》第一冊（華盛頓，1967年），頁78-82。
拍賣市場方面，一件相似青銅尊曾售於紐約佳士得，2015年11月10日，拍品21號；另可參見一件可資比較之例，售於紐約蘇富比，2022年3月22日，拍品103號。
源流：
TK 亞洲古美術，紐約，美國，2000年。
美國加利福尼亞州劉教授私人舊藏。
香港御雅居。
香港私人珍藏。
25.5cm high
Estimate $50,000 - $70,000
Overall in good condition as shown on the X-ray image.
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TK Asian Antiquities, VA., New York, USA, 2000.
Private Collection of Professor Liu, San Jose, C.A., U.S.A.
Joyce Gallery, Hong Kong.
A private collection Hong Kong.
Virginia, TK Asian Antiquities, Celestial Guardians of Ancient China.
TK Asian Antiquities, Celestial Guardians of Ancient China, 2000, p. 21.
Important Chinese & Asian Art
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Sale: LJ8825
11:00am - 25 October 2026
Hawthorn
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