Early Western Zhou Dynasty The slightly bulbous body rising from a spreading foot to a wide trumpet neck, cast with two opposing taotie masks on a leiwen ground between two pairs of bow-string bands, the interior of the base cast with eight pictograms, patinated to a dark brownish-green colour, box. 25.3cm (10in) high (2).Footnotes西周早期 青銅饕餮紋尊 銘文：□作父丁寶尊彝䀠 Provenance: Ader, Paris, 10 June 2016, lot 232 來源: Ader，巴黎，2016年6月10日，拍品編號232 The inscriptions on the interior can be translated as '[a family member] made this precious ritual vessel for the Father Ding of the Ju family'. Compare with a closely related bronze zun in the Shanghai Museum, early Western Zhou Dynasty, which is illustrated by P.F.Chen in the Xiashangzhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Xizhou shang (Study of the Archaic Bronzes of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties: Vol.I of Western Zhou Dynasty), Shanghai, 2004, pl.256. 此器為西周早期典型器，可參考上海博物館藏一件西周早期父辛尊，見陳佩芬著，《夏商周青銅器研究：西周上》，上海，2004年，圖版256。