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A LARGE COPPER-INLAID BRONZE Compare closely related hu of this type, 東周 戰國 青銅嵌紅銅瑞獸紋鋪
RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER with the design similarly laid out in seven 首耳活環蓋壺
(HU) registers, such as one, lacking the cover, in
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING the metropolitan museum of art, new York, 來源
from the havemeyer Collection, exhibited in
STATES PERIOD Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, 安思遠（1929-2014）收藏，編號B3202
the metropolitan museum of art, new York, 紐約蘇富比2002年3月19日，編號28
the ovoid body rising from a slightly splayed
foot to a waisted neck, set at the shoulder with 1993, pl. 160; and another, in the art Institute
a pair of beast-mask handles, each suspending of Chicago, from the Buckingham Collection,
a loose ring, the exterior inlaid in copper with published in Charles F. Kelley and Ch’en meng-
seven registers, rising sequentially as a frieze chia, Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham
of confronting pairs of antlered deer flanked by Collection, Chicago, 1946, pl. LIX; one with
addorsed pairs of long-tailed birds, confronting the cover, in the Fujii Yurinkan Collection,
sinuous dragons flanked by scrolls, stylized Kyoto, illustrated in Weber, ibid., fig. 37a (line
taotie flanked by scrolling kuilong, confronting drawing).
pairs of writhing dragons, and two registers of $ 80,000-120,000
confronting mythical birds with coiling tails,
the domed cover with further pairs of birds
divided by four upright hooked ring finials, the
vessel and cover with areas of heavy malachite
encrustation (2)
height 19½ in., 49.5 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of robert hatfield ellsworth (1929-
2014), no. B3202.
sotheby’s new York, 19th march 2002, lot 28.

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