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466 造形與本拍品相近的出土例子有河南回始侯古堆出土蟠蛇紋盉，見
A fine and rare archaic bronze ritual ewer and cover, he 《中國美術分類全集.中國青銅器全集.東周5》，北京，1997年，
頁48，編號49。又見上海博物館之藏品吳王夫差盉，見同書，頁47，
Eastern Zhou dynasty 編號48。該兩件例子之提樑比本拍品為繁複，但造形一致，可作參考。
另見山西長治分水嶺M270出土一件青銅盉，時代定為公元前6世紀晚期
Cast on three straight feet flattened at the ends and issuing from raised 至5世紀早期，其龍首造型與本器幾乎一致，見Jenny So著，《Eastern
Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Scakler Collections》，卷3，
animal head finials, the vessel of a compressed globular form with two 紐約，1995年，頁411，圖版84.4。

raised horizontal ribs featuring three bands of frieze decorated with
archaistic scrolls and kui dragons in relief, one side showing a slender ‘S’-

shaped mythical beast spout, the shoulders with arched handles above a

flat cylindrical cover attached to the body with a linked chain.
25.6cm high. (2).
HK$450,000 - 650,000
US$58,000 - 84,000

東周 青銅螭虺紋提梁盉

See an excavated example unearthed at Pingshan, Hebei province,
in 1977 in the Cultural Relics Institute, Hebei province, illustrated
in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 9. Eastern Zhou 3, Beijing, 1997,
p.163, no.160. See also another excavated example dated to the late
Spring and Auatumn period, unearthed in Henan province in 1978, in
the Cultural Relics Institute, Hebei province, illustrated in Zhongguo
Qingtongqi Quanji 11. Eastern Zhou 5, Beijing, 1997, p.48, no.49;
and another in the Shanghai Museum, also illustrated in Zhongguo
Qingtongqi Quanji 11. Eastern Zhou 5, Beijing, 1997, p.47, no.48.
Compare also another excavated example example in dated to the late
sixth to early fifth century BC, unearthed in Shanxi Changzhi Fenshuiling
M270, illustrated by Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the
Arthur M. Scakler Collections. Volume III, New York, 1995, p.411,
fig.84.4.

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