A bronze ritual vessel of ding type. Shang dynasty
The rounded body supported by three tubular feet and with two semicircular handles, displays a band of running dragons on leiwen and beneath a frieze of lancet shapes filled with ornaments. Inside at the well a three-character inscription: "fu Jian gao". Modern Japanese lacquered wooden box.
Height 15.5 cm
The inscription according to Chen Menjia, "Yinxu buci zongshu" most probably refers to the concubine of Shang king Wuding, while according to Guo Moruo, "Gu jiu ke ci zhiyi kaocha", Jiang was the name of the concubine and Gao her clan name. Other examples are the famous "Fu hao's bronzes", Fu hao referring to the wife of Shang Wuding.
From the fact that the bronze was excavated in Anyang, the capital of the Shang dynasty, and from the inscription refering to Fu, we can presume that the present ding belonged to the royal family of Wuding. Shang bronzes with a "Fu" character are rare.
商 青铜婦姜告雷紋三柱形足鼎
帶日本木盒
來源：
1940年河南安陽出土
梁上椿（1888-?）私人收藏
日本私人收藏
根據梁上椿在其《巖窟吉金圖錄》卷上七的記錄，1940年河南安陽殷墟出土同形銅銘鼎一對，圖見於梁上椿《巖窟吉金圖錄》卷上，1943年，頁6-7
Provenance
Collection Liang Shangchun (1888-?), China
Private collection, Japan
Literature
According to Liang Shangchun two almost identical ding vessels were excavated in Anyang in the spring of 1940, one of them is the present piece and one of them is illustrated in: Liang Shangchu, Yanku jijin tuli (Catalogue of Auspicious Bronzes in the Yanku Studio), vol. 1, 1943, p. 6-7