跋《周虢叔旅鈡拓片轴》

Postscript of the Scroll of the Rubbing of the Guo Shu Lü Bell of the Western Zhou Dynasty

道光十一年(1831),张廷济购入一件西周时期的虢叔旅鈡,其后作此拓本持赠杭州振绮堂汪远孙,并嘱东轩吟社钱师曾、黄士珣、胡敬作赋。此次社集之作,悉数收入《清尊集》中。因甬钟的枚部高凸于钟体器表,较为难拓,所以采用类似分纸拓的技法。张廷济在处理此件拓本时,技术上略有缺陷,与同时期的六舟全形拓钟相比,后者的技法堪称完美。

In the eleventh year of Daoguang Era （1831） of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Tingji, a famous antiquarian, purchased a bronze Guo Shu Lfi Bell of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and made a whole-frame rubbing of this antiquity to present to Wang Yuansun, the master of the Zhenqi Library, and asked Qian Shizeng, Huang Shixun and Hu Jing, all of whom were the members of the Dongxuan Poetry Society, to write rhapsodies for it. All of the poems composed for this event were collected into the Qingzun Collection. Because the mei （studs protruding out of the bell surface） were much higher than the bell surface and difficult to rub together with the latter, these mei were rubbed separately with single sheets of paper and then sheared and mounted into a whole. On the separate rubbing of this bell, Zhang Tingji showed some technical flaws; compared to the rubbing technique of Liuzhou, another rubbing expert contemporary with him, the latter can be regarded as perfect.