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A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE 'EIGHT
TRIGRAMS' ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Ming Dynasty
Raised on a spreading pedestal foot cast with
pendent lappets enclosing a ruyi petal, the
compressed globular body cast with four subtle
flanges dividing four taotie on a leiwen ground,
repeated on the two flanking cylinders, the
shoulder with the 'Eight Trigrams', bagua, the tall
cylindrical neck encircled by a band of archaistic
birds and two chi dragons.
38.6cm (15 1/4in) high, 3kg.
HKD100,000 - 150,000
US$13,000 - 19,000

明 局部鎏金螭龍饕餮紋投壺
Provenance:
Phillips, London, 16 December 1993
The Brian Harkins Collection

來源：
倫敦富藝斯，1993年12月16日
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏
The present vase is skillfully cast and with rich
parcel-gilding. Compare with a similar bronze
parcel-gilt vase, Ming dynasty, in the Edoardo
Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa,
Italy, illustrated by D.Failla in Food for the
Ancestors, Flowers for the Gods, Genoa, 2017,
p.240, no.11.1.
The ruyi-shaped 'ears' behind the head of the
chi dragons continued the style of the Southern
Song dynasty, compare with the chi dragon on
a silver cup, Southern Song dynasty, excavated
from Pengzhou, Sichuan, illustrated by the
National Museum of China in the Songyun:
sichuan jiaocang wenwu jicui (The Style of Song:
Selected Cultural Relics Unearthed from Sichuan
Province), Beijing, 2006, p.120. See also a gold
cup and stand, Southern Song dynasty, cast
with chi-dragons with similar head and body,
excavated from Guizhou, illustrated by the
Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Zhongxing Jisheng:
Nansong Fengwu Guanzhi, Beijing, 2015, p.337.

壺口方唇，兩側鑄雙貫耳，其上飾饕餮紋，壺頸
鑄二螭龍，螭龍頭呈扇形，獨角，躬身成鋬，
尾分兩叉，頸底部鏨刻蟠夔紋，肩部鑄浮雕八卦
紋，扁鼓腹，上出四戟，每面飾饕餮紋，以雷紋
填地，束腰鏨刻蕉葉紋一周，圈足微侈，壺身饕
餮紋、螭龍、八卦及部分圈足鎏金。

此壺鑄造工藝精湛，身形端正，光彩流金。
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，
頗似，見《Food for the Ancestors Flowers for
the Gods》，熱那亞，2017年，頁240，編號
11.1。
壺身所鑄螭龍，頭頂兩塊如意形腮鬚，頗有南宋
遺韻，可比較四川彭州出土一件南宋龍紋夾層銀
杯之螭龍紋，見中國國家博物館編，《宋韻：
四川窖藏文物輯粹》，北京，2006年，頁120；
另可比較一副貴州出土之南宋教子升天金杯盤，
其螭龍頭部、身形與此件頗似，見浙江省博物館
編，《中興紀勝: 南宋風物觀止》，北京，
2015年，頁337。
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