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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND
COVER (HU)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES
PERIOD
the pear-shaped body with four registers of repeating pairs
of abstracted snake-dragons, each snake-dragon with a
finely patterned S-curved body rising and falling in varying
levels of relief and centered by a raised boss, recessed
bands dividing each register, the neck with geometric cicada
lappets rising from a chevron-and-spiral band and set with
a pair of beast-mask handles, each suspending a loose ring
connected by a loop-and-bar chain to an arched handle
with dragon-head terminals, the domed cover cast with
concentric bands of abstract motifs and set with a pair of
upright loops, all supported on a straight foot cast with a
braided band (2)
Height 11 in., 27.9 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1994.
LITERATURE
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 53.
For other hu and covers cast with this form and decoration,
see one published in Chen Peifen, Xia Shang Zhou qingtongqi
yanjiu: Dong Zhou pian, xia [Study of bronzes of the Xia,
Shang, and Zhou periods: Eastern Zhou, vol. 2], Shanghai,
2004, pl. 615; another published in Eleanor von Erdberg,
‘Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and
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Dolly Carter’, Artibus Asiae Supplementum, vol. 35, 1978,
pl. 54; and a third from the Brandt Collection, sold in our
London rooms, 10th July 1979, lot 5.
$ 20,000-30,000

東周 戰國 青銅卷龍紋鋪首耳壺
來源：
1994年購於香港
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出版：
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD STEAMER 東周 戰國初 青銅交龍紋鋪首耳甗
Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版53 (YAN) 來源：
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, EARLY WARRING
STATES PERIOD 紐約蘇富比1998年9月17日，編號144
19 comprised of two parts, the lower vessel of globular form 出版：
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE FOOD VESSEL (DING) supported on three inverted conical feet, the widest part 彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版47
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY of the body encircled by a raised flange with three narrow
bands of cowry shell pattern below two bands of low-relief
the deep rounded body supported on three cabriole legs and interlocking snakes, the shoulder set with a pair of masks
set with a pair of flaring upright handles, the shoulder cast each suspending a loose ring handle, all surmounted
with a broad register of interlocking meander in low relief by a short, straight neck designed to fit neatly into the
punctuated by regularly spaced bosses in high relief, the conforming foot of the bowl-shaped upper vessel, the deep
same pattern repeated in the narrow register and pendent U-shaped sides cast with three further bands of interlocking
triangular lappets encircling the lower body, the handles with snakes and similarly set with mask-and-loose-ring handles
a complementary pattern of raised bosses against a leiwen below the waisted everted rim, the well with three bands
ground, the patina predominantly gray and green of radiating apertures to allow steam to rise, the patina
Height 14⅛ in., 35.9 cm principally gray with patches of green (2)
Height 14½ in., 36.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 4th June 1992, lot 186. PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 17th September 1998, lot 144.
$ 15,000-25,000
LITERATURE
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
東周 青銅交龍紋鼎
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 47.
來源：
19 紐約佳士得1992年6月4日，編號186 $ 30,000-50,000
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