The Ju Fu Xin PanEarly Western Zhou dynasty西周初 舉父辛盤cast to the interior with a three-character inscription reading Ju Fu Xin 銘文：舉 父辛Diameter 13¼ in., 33.5 cm来源: DescriptionThe Ju Fu Xin PanEarly Western Zhou dynasty西周初 舉父辛盤cast to the interiorwith a three-character inscription reading Ju Fu Xin銘文：舉 父辛Diameter 13¼ in., 33.5 cmCondition reportBecause this lot was imported into the United States after September 1, 2020, it is subject to an import tariff of 7.5% of the value declared upon entry into the United States. $7,500, plus applicable sales tax will be included on your invoice unless you instruct Sotheby's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address. For more information on the import tariff, please review the Symbol Key in the back of the catalogue. If you have any questions, please contacttariffs@sothebys.com。由於本拍品在 2020年9月1日之後進口到美國，所以買家可能需就本拍品支付進口關稅，金額為拍品進口美國當時申報價值的7.5％。除非您要求蘇富比安排運送拍品到美國境外之地址，否則發票上將包括7,500美元以及相關的銷售稅。如欲查詢進口關稅的更多信息，請查閱目錄背面的附錄。 如有任何疑問，敬請聯繫tariffs@sothebys.com。For more information on and additional videos for this lot, please contact serina.wei@sothebys.com.ProvenanceSotheby's London, 9th June 1992, lot 3.倫敦蘇富比1992年6月9日，編號3LiteratureY.P. Lee, Important Inscribed Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels from the Li Yingshuan Collection in the Shanghai Museum, vol. 2, Shanghai, 1996, pl. 39.李爾白，《李蔭軒所藏中國青銅器》，卷2，上海，1996年，圖版39Catalogue noteCast with pictograms reading Ju Fu Xin, this bronze pan of the early Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-771 BC) has an elegant, smoothly curved profile. The two characters Fu Xin indicate that the vessel belonged to Father Xin, while Ju would be his clan. Shallow basins, pan, were used for holding water in ritual ceremonies, probably used together with water ewers, he, as a set. They appear to have formed an integral part of ritual vessel groups. See, for example, an early Western Zhou group found in a tomb at Gaojiabu, Jingyang county, Shaanxi province, comprising in addition to pan, vessels such as he, gui, and zun. They are illustratedin a line drawing in Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIA, Washington D.C., 1990, p. 98, fig. 142b, where the author suggests that the pan in the group might have served as the basin for the similarly ornamented he.A pan closely related to the present piece, theTian MinFu Yi Pan 天黽父乙盤, in the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (accession no. 1968.101), formerly in the collection of Mrs Irving T. Snyder, included in the museum's exhibition Art of East Asia, San Diego, 2013, is illustrated in Rawson, op.cit., vol. IIB, p. 719, fig. 121.2. Another similar vessel, the Tai BaoDu Pan 大保都盤, lacking the high-relief masks, formerly in the Wessen Collection, now in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is also illustrated in Rawson, op.cit., vol. IIB, p. 718, fig. 121.1. Compare also a bronze basin with more rounded sides, the body similarly cast with animal masks in high relief between narrow borders of rings, but decorated with cicada blades instead of confronting kui dragons, sold in our London rooms, 10th November 2010, lot 210.In the late Shang dynasty, Ju was a powerful clanresidingmostlyin Henan and Shandong provinces. Members of the clanheldimportant official positions under the Shang king. Onesuch official wasXiaozi X, the owner of a bronze gui,sold in these rooms, 17th March 2021, lot 193. The inscription of the guidocuments thefamoushistorical event ofthe military campaign against Yifang launched by Di Xin, the last king of the Shang empire. Xiaozi X was one of the military generals who directlyparticipatedin this campaign. The Ju clan was active until at least the middle Western Zhou dynasty, and members of the clan continued to serveat the Zhou court. According to archeological findings,the residingregionsof the Juclan in the Western Zhou period was concentratedat Liulihe 琉璃河near Beijing, which is likely a consequence of the relocationpolicy for the Shang aristocratsintroduced by the early Zhourulers (see He Jingcheng,Shangzhou qingtongqi zushi mingwen yanjiu[Study of the clan pictograms on the bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties], Jinan, 2009, pp 90-99).A fewbronzes of different forms inscribed with the same name as the present piece are recorded.Compare the lid of the Ju Fu Xin You 舉父辛卣 in the Palace Museum, Beijing, cast with patterns closely related to this pan, but lacking the high-relief animal masks, included in Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji / Corpus of Bronze Inscriptions, Taipei, 1983, no. 5171.