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458 器長頸微束，器形修長，腹部圓鼓，貫耳，圈足，有蓋，蓋頂飾一圈足
A rare large archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover, hu 狀捉手，口沿外侈。頸部及腹不以雷紋為地，飾對稱風鳥紋。參看美
Zhou dynasty 國明尼阿波利斯藝術館藏一件商代晚期曲折雷紋壺，其形制及紋飾排列
The finely cast vessel of tall pear-shaped form, the elegantly body 與此壺類似，著錄於《中國美術分類全集.中國青銅器全集.商5》，北
tapering gradually from a pronounced splayed foot, finely cast on 京，1998年，頁146，圖150；另見1975年昌平白浮龍山鹿場M2出土一
each side with two broad friezes of stylised hook-beaked birds set in 件西周早期穿帶壺，其蓋形制與本壺類似，見北京市文物局編，《北京
confrontation against a dense leiwen scroll ground, their eyes formed 文物精粹大系》，北京，2002年，頁127。
from prominent raised bosses, their talons and plumage intricately
picked out with stylised geometric scroll, separated from each other and
below two bands cast with additional stylised birds, the neck set with a
pair of tubular handles, the cover cast with an additional band of stylised
birds, tapering to a sharp everted rim with two rectangular apertures.
41cm high. (2).
HK$250,000 - 300,000
US$32,000 - 39,000

周 青銅鳳鳥雷紋蓋壺

See an excavated example showing a similar ritual wine vessel with
elongated neck and cover, in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute
of Art, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 4. Shang 4, Beijing,
1998, p.146, no.150; also another hu vase excavated from Changping
in 1975, dated to the early Western Zhou period, illustrated in Gems of
Beijing Cultural Relics Series, Beijing, 2002, p.127.

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