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A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND
COVER, HU
Warring States Period
The ovoid body raised on a slightly flaring foot, and
engraved with stylised cloud scrolls within bands
and triangles, between three bands of concave
strings, the shoulder flanked by mask-and-ring
handles under a waisted neck engraved with stylised
plantain leaves filled with stylised cloud scrolls, the
slightly-domed cover cast with three handles and
engraved with a stylised cloud band, the bronze of
dark brown patina, box. 35cm (13 3/4in) high (3).
HKD180,000 - 220,000
US$23,000 - 28,000

戰國 青銅雲紋壺

Provenance:
Huaxia Tang collection, Taiwan

來源：
台灣華夏堂收藏

The engraved patterns were probably filled in with
red lacquer, a few traces of which remain in some
grooves. Bronzes tended to be lavishly decorated
during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States
periods, and were sometimes inlaid with gold, silver,
precious stones, glass, as well as lacquer. Compare
with a very similar bronze hu, late Warring States
period, in the Hubei Provincial Museum, illustrated
in the Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji (Complete
Collection of Chinese Bronzes), Beijing, 1996, pl.40.

隆蓋，頂鑄三抽象獸形鈕，蓋面深刻變體卷雲紋，
壺平口，頸微束，下方鏨刻變體蕉葉紋，内飾變體
雲氣紋，溜肩，肩部兩側分鑄一對獸面紋銜環鋪
首，腹部下收，肩腹飾三匝凹弦紋，期間飾變體三
角雲氣紋，圈足高企而外撇，飾雲氣紋，鏨刻紋飾
內或填朱漆，幾乎全失，足内留有範土，皮色暗沉
古穆。

戰國銅器走向繁複雕琢，或錯金銀，或嵌紅銅，更
有填漆之裝飾，華麗非常。湖北博物館藏一件戰國
晚期雲紋壺與本拍品如出一轍，尺寸亦類似，見
《中國青銅器全集》，北京，1996年，編號40。

Image courtesy of Hubei Provincial Museum
湖北省博物館藏