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A POTTERY RITUAL WINE VESSEL, FANGHU
Eastern Zhou Dynasty
The faceted and waisted pear-shaped body raised on a square
pedestal foot encircled by a band of bosses, moulded around the
body with eight panels filled with phoenix patterns divided by pointed
flanges, rising to a tall square neck decorated with stylised hui
dragons, each side with an applied strap handle.
45cm (17 3/4in) high.
HKD80,000 - 100,000
US$10,000 - 13,000

東周 灰陶虺龍紋方壺

The shape of the present wine vessel is comparable with its
contemporary bronze ritual wine vessels, see a mid Spring and
Autumn period ‘dragon’ fanghu, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi
quanji, Beijing, 1998, no.23; compare also a related Warring States
period painted pottery hu, but with beast handles, in the Capital
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, Shanghai, 2000,
vol.2, pl.189. See a further example of a bronze hu from the Robert
and Jean-Pierre Rousset collection, recently sold at Bonhams Paris,
25 October 2022, lot 8.

陶質，方唇折沿，直頸，四面黏燒穿環，面飾虺龍紋，頸部飾菱形紋
飾，肩腹一體出四棱，上下鳳八面，每面正中棱線突出成尖角，每面
飾虺龍紋，束腰，足四方。

此壺形制，腹若袋狀，四棱交叉凸起，同時期青銅器亦常見之。可比
較一件春秋中期龍紋方壺，見《中國青銅器全集》，北京，1998年，
編號23。更早相關實例則可參考Robert及Jean-Pierre Rousset舊藏一
件西周青銅壺，2022年10月25日售於巴黎邦瀚斯，拍品編號8。北京
首都博物館藏一件戰國雙獸耳彩繪陶壺與本件風格類似，惟頸部有獸
耳，而本件為四穿環，見《中國陶瓷全集》，上海，2000年，卷2，
編號189。

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