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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE 'CLOUD' ARROW
VASE, TOUHU
Ming Dynasty
The partly-gilt bulbous body decorated with
archaistic taotie masks divided by flanges, rising
from a spreading foot with wave pattern to a tall
cylindrical neck decorated with gilt cloud swirls
above a band of further archaistic taotie masks,
the mouth flanked with a pair of cylindrical
tubular handles further decorated with
archaistic masks.
23.1cm (9 1/8in) high, 1.069kg.
HKD50,000 - 80,000
US$6,400 - 10,000

明 局部銅鎏金饕餮紋投壺
Provenance:
The Brian Harkins Collection

來源：
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏
The present vase displays archaic motifs inspired
by ritual bronzes of the Shang and Western
Zhou dynasty as demonstrated in the taotie
masks and in the 'wave' pattern motif around
the foot. Archaism saw revival from the Song
dynasty, and the present 'wave' pattern also
relates and is in continuity to that seen on a
bronze fu vessel, dated to 1314 in the Shanghai
Museum.
Compare a similar style of gilt decoration on a
related bronze arrow vase, late Ming dynasty,
illustrated by D.Failla, Food for the Ancestors
Flowers for the Gods, Genova, 2017, p.240,
fig.11.1.

壺口方唇，兩側鑄貫耳，貫耳及壺口飾饕餮紋，
頸部局部鎏金飾兩朵卷雲紋，頸部飾饕餮紋一
周，肩部起地飾柿葉，扁圓鼓腹，出四扇形扉
棱，四面飾饕餮紋，正中出短戟成鼻，束腰飾
卷雲狀蟠夔紋，壺身饕餮紋、柿葉紋、圈足皆
局部鎏金。
局部鎏金可參考意大利熱那亞國立愛德華多·基
歐索尼東方藝術博物館所藏一件明代銅局部鎏
金投壺，見D.Failla，《Food for the Ancestors
Flowers for the Gods》，熱那亞，2017年，
頁240，編號11.1。

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