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Fig. 1 A rubbing of the decorative band on a triple steamer set excavated from the Fu Hao tomb © Cultural Relics Press, Beijing
圖一 婦好墓出土銅三聯甗紋飾拓片 © 文物出版社，北京
Fig. 3 An archaic bronze vessel (hu) Fig. 4 An archaic bronze vessel (hu) © Freer
Fig. 2 A rubbing of the decorative band on an archaic bronze vessel excavated from the Fu Hao tomb © Cultural Relics Press, Beijing
© The Palace Museum, Beijing Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution,
圖二 婦好墓出土銅帶流鋬鼎形器紋飾拓片 © 文物出版社，北京 圖三 青銅壺 © 故宮博物院，北京 Washington, D.C.: Purchase — Charles Lang
Freer Endowment, F1948.1
圖四 青銅壺 © 佛利爾美術館，史密森學
會，華盛頓：購買 - Charles Lang Freer
Endowment, F1948.1

A similar hu in the Palace Museum, Beijing, reputedly 北京故宮博物院收藏一壺例，傳為安陽出土，載於 The present hu comes from the important German pre-War 本壺出自德國戰前著名工業家Hans Georg Oeder（1880-
excavated at Anyang, is illustrated in Gugong jingdian: 《故宮經典：故宮青銅器圖典》，北京，2010年，編 collection of the industrialist Hans Georg Oeder (1880- 1938 ）收藏。Oeder去世後，其妻子將數件青銅器捐
Gugong qingtong qi tudian / Classics of the Forbidden 號43（圖三）；另一例藏於舊金山亞洲藝術博物館， 1938) of Priemern, Altmark (now Saxony-Anhalt). After his 贈予了德國柏林皇家普魯士博物館，其中包括著名的
City. Bronzes of the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2010, no. 43 death, his wife Pauline donated a number of bronzes to the
(fig. 3); another in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 載於René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé，《Bronze Vessels East Asian Art Collection of the Royal Prussian Museums in 西周犧尊和吳王夫差鑒，二者均曾展於英國倫敦皇家
is published in René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Bronze of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection》， Berlin, Germany, including the famous Western Zhou tapir 藝術學院《中國藝術國際展覽會》，1935至1936 年
Vessels of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection, 舊金山，1977 年，圖版XIV（中）；再比一例，現存 vessel and a massive jian from the reign of King Fuchai of （編號165及581）。二戰結束後，許多中國藝術品被
San Francisco, 1977, pl. XIV center; one in the Freer Gallery 於佛利爾美術館（現國立亞洲藝術博物館），華盛 Wu (r. 495-473 BC), both of which had been included in the 作為戰利品落入蘇聯手中，此兩件青銅重器亦在其
of Art, Washington, D.C., in John Alexander Pope et al., The 頓，見約翰•亞歷山大•波普等，《The Freer Chinese International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of 中，現在分別藏於莫斯科（或在普希金造型藝術博
Freer Chinese Bronzes, Washington, D.C., 1967, pl. 5 (fig. 4); Arts, London, 1935-6 (nos 165 and 581). At the end of the
and another, very similar to the Freer hu, was sold in our Bronzes》，華盛頓，1967 年，圖版5（圖四）；另有 Second World War they were among the many pieces of 物館）和聖彼得堡的艾米塔吉博物館（Herbert Butz，
London rooms, 10th June 1997, lot 112. 一例，與佛利爾藏壺非常相似，售於倫敦蘇富比1997 Chinese art taken as war booty to the Soviet Union and are 〈Early Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of the Museum
A related hu in the Sackler Collection, somewhat simpler in 年 6 月 10 日，編號 112。 now in Moscow (probably in the Pushkin Museum) and in the of East Asian Art〉，《Orientations》，2000年10月，
its overall decoration but stylistically similar, is attributed by Hermitage, St. Petersburg, respectively (Herbert Butz, ‘Early 頁74，圖 2及 3）。除此外，另有許多青銅器仍舊由
Bagley also to the 13th century BC: with just two different 賽克勒收藏見一壺例，整體紋飾相對略簡，但風格相 Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of the Museum of East Oeder家族傳承，其中多件重要藏品於1984年由蘇富
taotie bands, lacking any decoration on the neck, it shows 近，貝格利曾將其斷代為公元前十三世紀。該壺飾 Asian Art’, Orientations, October 2000, p. 74, figs 2 and 3). A 比拍出。Oeder之父Georg Oeder （1846-1931）為一位
only bowstring lines and a scroll band near the handles, and 兩層饕餮紋，頸飾弦紋，貝格利對於其輪廓的精細 substantial group of archaic bronzes, however, including this 德國風景畫畫家，收藏日本藝術品甚豐。在德國杜塞
a band of formal hooked motifs between the main registers, 描述亦可適用於本品：「整體輪廓由壺頸處一對獸 hu, had remained in the family and many important pieces
similarly repeated at the foot. Bagley’s carefully observed from the collection were sold at Sotheby’s in 1984. Oeder’s 爾多夫，一條通往萊茵河之街道更以「Oederallee」
description of its well-calibrated silhouette also fits the 首形貫耳和諧切分，下部則繼續延伸壺身曲線。」 father, Georg Oeder (1846-1931), was a German landscape 命名。
present vessel: “At the neck the silhouette is interrupted by （羅伯特•貝格利，《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the painter who assembled a vast collection of Japanese art. In
a pair of vertical lugs formed into animal heads and curved Arthur M. Sackler Collections》，華盛頓，1987 Düsseldorf, Germany, a street leading to the Rhine River is
to repeat the profile of the vessel” (Robert W. Bagley, 年，編號58，頁341，並見於封底）。另一例與 named after him, ‘Oederallee’.
Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 前述賽克勒藏壺相類，藏東京出光美術館，錄
Washington, D.C., 1987, no. 58 and p. 341, the vessel also
illustrated on the back of the dust jacket). Another hu similar 《出光美術館：開館十五周年記念展圖錄》，東
to the Sackler piece, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 京，1981年，圖版1063。
is illustrated in Idemitsu Bijutsukan: Kaikan jūgo shūnen
kinen ten zuroku / The Fifteenth Anniversary Catalogue,
Tokyo, 1981, pl. 1063.

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