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The rectangular ring handles on the present wine vessel are extremely 壺蓋微隆，四角鑄四小型獸面鋪首，蓋頂飾兩匝變體龍紋，壺蓋與壺
rare compared with the usual circular ring handles found on bronze 身子母口，頸微束，四面亦鑄四鋪首銜環，溜肩，肩部兩側鑄兩面頗
hu dated to the Warring States period. See a related bronze ‘dragon’ 為立體之鋪首銜環，鋪首嘴部呈鷹嘴，環呈長方形，環身飾變體幾何
hu in the Shanghai Museum collection, dated early Warring States 龍紋，肩部至胸腹部飾六道弦紋，每兩匝弦紋之間填以虎噬蛇紋一
period, which also has four small loose ring-handle pendants issuing 周，虎紋兩兩相對成一組，下腹部一匝弦紋之下飾蕉葉紋，其內填龍
from a pushou to hold the cover with strings, illustrated by P.F. Chen in 紋，圈足外鼓，上飾幾何卷雲紋一周。
Xiashangzhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Dongzhou, xia (The Study of Archaic
Bronzes in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties: VII of Eastern Zhou 此壺為盛酒器，壺蓋與頸部鋪首可繫繩加以固定，而肩部方形鋪首尤
Dynasty), vol.2, Shanghai, 2004, p.316, pl.567. No exact companion 為少見。上海博物館藏一件戰國早期龍紋壺頸部亦有四個小型鋪首銜
piece appears to have been published with rectangular ring handles, 環，雖蓋已佚，推測其蓋應如本件亦有四個鋪首銜環以綁定蓋與壺
but see a bronze wine vessel in another shape with similar handles, 身，見陳佩芬著，《夏商周青銅器研究：東周篇》，上海，2004年，
caihou zhufou, from the late Spring and Autumn period, illustrated 下卷，頁316，編號567。目前似乎尚未可見圓壺鋪首銜環為方環之
in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Bronzes), 例，或參考一件春秋晚期蔡侯朱缶所飾方環提手，見《中國青銅器全
Beijing, 1998, vol.7, p.76, pl.73. See also a ‘dragon’ hu from the early 集》，北京，1998年，卷7，頁76，圖73。此壺弦紋之間所飾虎紋
Warring States period in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, with 可比較舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏一件戰國早期嵌龍紋壺，見前書，頁
similar distinctive tiger motif, illustrated in ibid., p.146, pl.141. 146，編號141。
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