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A BRONZE DRAGON-HEAD WINE VESSEL, YI
Yuan Dynasty
The vessel raised on a flat base rising to a lipped rim, the S-shaped
loop handle formed by the tail of a dragon incised with scales with its
head on the opposite side as a spout, the body decorated with wave
pattern.
24.5cm (9 5/8in) wide.
HKD100,000 - 150,000
US$13,000 - 19,000

元 青銅龍首匜
Provenance:
A Portuguese private collection, acquired in the first half of the 20th
century and thence by descent
來源:
葡萄牙私人舊藏，得於20世紀上半葉，後由家族傳承

See a related Yuan dynasty bronze dragon-head vessel in the Saint 匜圓唇，微鼓腹，腹外壁飾水波紋，平底，流鑄單角龍首，龍口微
Louis Art Museum, illustrated by Philip K. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes: 張，鋬作龍尾，呈S形。
The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint
Louis, 2008, pl.11. 美國聖路易斯藝術博物館藏一件元代青銅龍首匜與本件非常相似，
見Philip K. Hu著，《Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art
Originated from bronze water vessel in the Eastern Zhou dynasty, Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections》, 聖路易斯，2008年，
yi vessels had been used as wine vessels since the Song and Yuan 編號11。
dynasties pairing with cups and stands, later more commonly made
with gold, silver and jade but without a handle. See a Yuan dynasty 匜本為東周青銅禮器中水器，宋元之後取其形做酒器，常與杯盞搭
silver dragon-head yi vessel and a gold dragon-head yi vessel, 配，俗稱為馬盂或馬杓。金銀玉器中常見此器，惟多不帶柄，比較兩
illustrated by Z.S. Yang, Shehua zhise: Song Yuan Ming jinyinqi yanjiu 件元代銀龍首馬杓及一件金龍首馬杓，見揚之水著，《奢華之色：宋
(The Study of Gold and Silver Wares of Song, Yuan Ming Dynasties), 元明金銀器研究》，北京，2011年，卷3，頁98及99。器身所飾水波
Beijing, 2011, vol.3, pp.98-99. The wave patterns on the body is 紋為宋元銅器常見式樣，可參考意大利熱那亞國立愛德華多·基歐索
characteristic of Song and Yuan dynasties bronzes, see the pattern 尼東方藝術博物館所藏一件元代方壺頸部之海水波紋，見D.Failla，
on a Yuan dynasty square hu in the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of 《Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods》，熱那亞，2017
Oriental Art, illustrated by D. Failla in Food for the Ancestors Flowers 年，圖版7.10。
for the Gods, Genoa, 2017, pl.7.10.

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