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An archaic bronze wine vessel and cover, zhi
Western Zhou dynasty
Slightly compressed and rising from an oval recessed foot, the wide
body with waisted neck ending in a flared rim, decorated with bands
of geometric borders with upward archaistic leaf lappets at the neck,
flanked at the sides with a pair of narrow vertical looped handles,
the domed cover further decorated with archaistic motifs ending in a
trapezoid taotie finial.
20.5cm high. (2).
HK$250,000 - 350,000
US$32,000 - 45,000
西周 青銅蕉葉紋觶
See an excavated example of similar form also decorated with archaistic
plantain motif which seems to be the prototype for the current lot, in the
Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji
2. Shang 2, Beijing, 1997, p.137, no.133, and another similar zhi vessel
illustrated by Robert W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M.
Sackler Collection, New York, 1987, p.303, fig.49.20.
器 作扁圓體，蓋 上有 菌形方 鈕，侈口，束 頸，鼓 腹略下垂。蓋 飾雲雷紋一
周，頸部飾三角形蟬紋及幾何紋，圈足壁亦飾雲雷紋一周。對比1987年河
南安陽郭家莊東南M1出土一件商代晚期戈觶，著錄於《中國美術分類全
集－中國青銅器全集2．商2》，北京，1997年，頁137，編號133，雖紋飾較
本器較簡單，但器形及紋飾佈局類似。

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