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fig. 1 Collection of the Shanghai Museum fig. 2 Sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2004, lot 145
圖一 上海博物館藏品 圖二 紐約佳士得，2004 年 9 月 21 日，拍品 145 號

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The second, plain group, which includes the present you, shares 此類雙鴞相背造型的青銅卣大多製作於商代，主要有兩類形制，一類器
the same basic form, but has a smooth surface decorated only with 面滿布紋飾，另一類則如此器光素簡潔。
simplified wings and facial details cast in crisp relief creating an
elegance of form devoid of unnecessary distractions. The closest 第一類鴞卣的紋飾細密，以羽毛紋及雷紋為主，偶見小型的鳥紋。R.W.
comparable you to the present vessel appears to be one of approximately
the same size (25 cm. high) in the Hubei Yingcheng Wenhuaguan which Bagley著1987年出版《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler
is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 4 - Shang(4), Beijing, 1998, Collections》中收錄了三件此類例子，一件藏於美國華盛頓特區弗瑞爾
p. 152, no. 156. Like the present you, the heads of the owls on the Hubei 美術館，見頁371，編號63.4；一件藏於京都泉屋博物館，頁115，編號
Yingcheng example exhibit unusual 'eyebrows' with a combed, hair-like 154；一件藏於英國劍橋大學菲茨威廉博物館，頁371，編號63.3。布倫
texture. Another unusual feature of the present vessel is the inclusion 岱奇珍藏中亦見一例，見《Ancient Chinese Bronzes》，三藩市，1966
of the pair of confronted dragons behind the owl heads, rather than the
more usual C-shaped horns that appear on most of the other published 年，圖版XVIII（B）。
examples. A smaller (18.5 cm. high), but otherwise very similar you to the
present vessel and the Hubei Yingcheng example, lacking the 'eyebrows', 另有一種介於第一類及第二類之間的鴞卣，其器身如第一類滿布羽毛紋
as well as the pair of confronted dragons behind the owl heads, is in 及雷紋，但效果趨於平面，而翅膀的形狀也與第二類較為相似，如湖南
the Shanghai Museum and illustrated in Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the 省株州徵集一件，見《文物》，1960年第3期，頁29，圖2；及哈佛藝
Collection of the Shanghai Museum Exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum 術博物館內溫斯羅普珍藏中一件，見R.W. Bagley著前揭書，頁115，圖
of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 68-69, no. 16 (fig. 1). 153。前者喙向下勾，後者則如此器一樣上翹，兩者皆有繩形提梁。
Other related vessels of the plain group, but with hooked, rather than
upturned beaks and cast with more distinctively owl-like facial features, 第二類鴞卣的器形與第一類並無差別，但器面光素無飾，使得翅膀及五
rather than the taotie-like features of the present vessel, include the 官更顯突出。此器即屬第二類。第二類近似例中與此器最為相近的一例
you from the Doris Duke Collection sold at Christie’s New York, 21 應為湖北應城市博物館藏品，其高度與此近乎相同（高25公分），眉
September 2004, lot 145 (fig. 2); the example from Shilou, Shanxi 毛亦見如同梳理過的效果，見《中國青銅器全集-4-商》，北京，1998
province, included in the exhibition, The Genius of China, Royal Academy 年，頁152，圖版156號，但雙角呈C形，不見此器上的龍形角。另比較
of Art, London, 29 September 1973 - 23 January 1974, no. 81; the you
included in the Kaikodo exhibition of 15 September - 26 October 1996, 上海博物館所藏一件較小的徙鴞卣（高16.7公分），其眉毛未見細節處
New York, no. 49; and the vessel illustrated by E. B. Avril in Chinese Art 理，亦無龍形角，見《上海博物館珍藏中國青銅器香港藝術館展覽圖
in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1997, pp. 15 and 33, no. 7, which, like the 集》，香港，1983年，頁68-69，圖版16（圖一）。
Shilou you, features animal mask rather than loop terminals.
第二類鴞卣中還有一種喙下勾而且五官更寫實的例子，如紐約佳士得
2004年9月21日拍賣一例，拍品145號（圖二）；山西博物院藏一例，
見1974年倫敦皇家藝術學院《The Genius of China》展覽圖錄，圖版
81號；紐約懷古堂1996年9月15日至1996年10月26日展覽一例，見圖錄
49號；辛辛那提博物舘藏一例，見《Chinese Art in the Cincinnati Art
Museum》，1997年，頁15、33，圖版7號。

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