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[4] Sugimura, loc.cit.

[5] Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, exhibition catalogue, The Asia Society, New York, 1968, p. 154.

[6] The jar has been frequently published, for example, in Wenhua Da Geming qijian chutu wenwu [Cultural relics excavated during
the Great Cultural Revolution], Beijing, 1972, p. 9; in Qian Hao, Chen Heyi & Ru Suichu, Out of China’s Earth. Archaeological
Discoveries in the People’s Republic of China, New York and Beijing, 1981, pl. 191; and in Peng Qingyun, ed., Zhongguo wenwu
jinghua da cidian: Qingtong juan [Encyclopaedia of masterpieces of Chinese cultural relics: Bronze volume], Shanghai, 1995, pl.
1079.

[7] Zhongguo meishu quanji, vol. 10, op.cit., pl. 201.

[8] They are discussed in Nigel Wood & Ian C. Freestone, ‘A Preliminary Examination of a Warring States Pottery Jar with So-called
“Glass-Paste” Decoration, in Guo Jingkun, ed., Science and Technology of Ancient Ceramics 3: Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Ancient Ceramics, Shanghai, 1995,, pp. 12-17; and in Hsieh [Xie] Mingliang, ‘Zhongguo chuqi jianyou taoqi xin ciliao
[New material on early Chinese lead-glazed pottery], Gugong wenwu yuekan/The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art,
no. 309, December 2008, pp. 28-37.

[9] Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections, Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco, 1980–82, vol. 10, col. pl. 65.

[10] Published in Li Xueqin, op.cit., pl. 171; and Peng Qingyun, op.cit., pl. 877.

[11] Jessica Rawson, ed., The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, London, 1992, p. 72, fig. 45.

[12] Illustrated in Jenny F. So. Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. New York, 1995, p. 62, fig. 110.

[13] It was included, for example, by Max Loehr in the exhibition Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, op.cit., cat. no. 69.

[14] So, op.cit., p. 63, fig. 112.

[15] Liang Shizheng et al., Xi Qing gu jian, 1755, vol. 20: hu, no. 22.

[16] In the translation of James Legge, Li Chi: Book of Rites, 2 vols, New York, 1967 (1885), chapter Mingtangwei; see Liu Yang, ‘To
Please Those on High: Ritual and Art in Ancient China’, in Liu Yang, ed., Homage to the Ancestors: Ritual Art from the Chu Kingdom,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, p. 34.

錦繡戰國—青銅錯金銀嵌琉璃方壺

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本品方壺，華飾金銀及彩色琉璃，三者各具特色，工藝各異，繁縟絢麗，錦繡卓絕，應為王室貴族而製，足可代表戰國時期奢華工藝之巔
峰。此類裝飾風格尤為華麗，極見匠藝雄心，冠絕於世，極其珍罕。因相類作例稀少，其製作工藝罕為人知，亦鮮有相關文獻見經出版。
相類鑲嵌琉璃之例目前僅知有三，其中一例河北出土，年代略晚，經大量出版著錄，廣為人知。另外兩例均於1930年左右現身市場，由日
本藏家納入珍藏，自此幾乎絕跡公眾。本品亦然，自1938年後即從未見經出版或公開展出。

嵌飾青銅器，始製於春秋時期。初期所嵌銅飾，受技術限制，多較為粗簡，後來工匠嘗試創新工藝，在成器之上製出凹槽，再錯以珍貴金
屬，所呈紋飾，尤為生動細緻。本器之錯銀紋飾，精細靈動，線條流暢，與同時期漆器繪飾相得益彰，互相呼應，足見藝匠造詣。

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