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570 This bianhu, like other examples, share similar Qin and Wei cultural
An archaic bronze lobed wine vessel and cover, bianhu influences such as the garlic mouth design, however the present lot
Qin / Western Han dynasty has a more distinctive panelled design with archaistic scroll motif. See
Rising from a sturdy splayed trapezoid foot, the compressed oval body an excavated example also with a garlic-mouth decoration, unearthed
plain with two moulded C-shaped engravings on each side, the wide in Shaanxi province, in Xianyang Museum, Shaanxi province, illustrated
waist flanked by a pair of taotie ringed handles, narrowing to a slim neck in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 12. Qin Han, Beijing, 1998, p.3, no.3.
before ending in a six-lobed garlic mouth at the rim, surmounted by a See also another related excavated example with similar ‘C’-shaped
matching six-lobed cover with a circular knop. engraving to the side dated to the Western Han dynasty, unearthed at
34.1cm high. (2). Sanshizhaicun, Sishilipu, Suide County, Shaanxi province in 1978, in the
HK$80,000 - 100,000 Suide County Museum, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Bronzes from
US$10,000 - 13,000 Northern Shaanxi. Volume II, Chengdu, 2009, pp.216-217, accession

秦/西漢 雙耳蒜頭扁蓋壺 no.TD31.

其他形式十分相近的出土例子，可參考於陝西咸陽塔兒坡出土，
現藏於咸陽市博物館之扁壺，見中國青銅器全集編輯委員會，
《中國美術分類全集－中國青銅器全集12．秦漢》，北京，
1998，頁3，編號3。

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