The Ju Fu Yi ZhiWestern Zhou dynasty西周 舉父乙觶cast to the inner mouth with a three-character inscription reading Fu Yi Ju銘文：父乙 舉Height 8 in., 20.2 cm来源: DescriptionThe Ju Fu Yi ZhiWestern Zhou dynasty西周 舉父乙觶cast to the inner mouth with a three-character inscription reading Fu Yi Ju銘文：父乙 舉Height 8 in., 20.2 cmCondition reportFor more information on and additional videos for this lot, please contact serina.wei@sothebys.com.ProvenanceCollection of Liu Tizhi (1879-1962).Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 2nd July 1963.Collection of Dr. George R. Drysdale (1929-2020).劉體智（1879-1962）收藏弗蘭克•卡羅（盧芹齋繼任人），紐約，1963年7月2日George R. Drysdale 博士（1929-2020）收藏LiteratureLiu Tizhi,Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben[Rubbings of archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 5,1935, p. 79, no. 3.劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷5，1935年，頁79，觶三Catalogue noteThisbronzevesselbelongs to a small group ofzhi bearing thesame three-character inscription. A plain zhi, attributed to the Western Zhou dynasty, formerly in the collections of Zhang Tingji (1768-1848)and Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940), isillustrated in Minao Hayashi,Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu / Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration: A Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels, Tokyo, 1986, p. 347, zhi 120; another of a similar form but cast with a band of serpents around the neck, discoveredin Xi'an in 1972, now in the Xi'an Museum, Xi'an, is published in Zhang Tianen,Shaanxi jinwen jicheng[Compendium of bronze inscriptions from Shaanxi], vol. 14, Xi’an, 2016, pl. 1633; two other zhi, recorded only by their inscriptions,arepublished in Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben[Rubbings of archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 5,1935, p. 79, nos 1 and 2.Compare alsoa bronzezhi of aslightly smaller size, attributed to the early phase of the middle Western Zhou dynasty, similarlydecoratedaroundthe neck with aband of taotieagainst a leiwen ground but with an undecorated splayed foot,cast withasingle pictogram, inthe collection of theIdemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, published in Wu Zhenfeng,Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng[Compendium of inscriptions and images of bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 19, Shanghai, 2012, no.10136.