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A RARE BRONZE ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Song/Yuan Dynasty
Crisply cast with a compressed hexagonal body
with matching hollow tube handles at the neck
further supporting two chilong, the faceted walls
of the body decorated with cross-hatched floral
diaper-pattern separated by vertical flanges on
each corner, the base with a spreading foot cast
with stylised pendent lappets, the patina of dark
brown hue.
45.3cm (17 7/8in) high, 5.9kg.

HKD70,000 - 100,000
US$8,900 - 13,000

宋/元 銅螭龍錦地六方出戟雙貫耳投壺
Provenance:
The Brian Harkins Collection

來源：
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏
The motif of this tall slender vase of balanced
proportions is cast on the body which is richly
decorated with a dense and neat diaper-pattern
ground. The diaper-pattern grounds were
popular during the Song and Yuan dynasties,
which can be seen on Li Jie's (李誡; 1065–1110)
Yingzao Fashi (State Building Standards),
republished in Siku quanshu, 1773, vol.33.

See a bronze vase, Yuan dynasty, of square
section decorated with the same diaper-pattern
in the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental
Art in Genoa, Italy, illustrated by D.Failla, Food
for the Ancestors, Flowers for the Gods, 2017,
p.134, pl.7.7. Compare also with a bronze
hexagonal vase, Yuan dynasty, in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, acc.no.:179-1899;
and another bronze vase, 13th/14th century, in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.
no.:2015.272.

壺六方，方口，兩側鑄雙貫耳，口部及貫耳飾錢
紋錦地，頸分兩段，上段飾以菱花錦地，前後各
攀附螭龍一條，螭龍身形短壯，下段飾回紋錦
地，肩部分六格，每格飾龜背錦地，腹部出六短
戟，每面飾菱花紋及錢紋錦地組合，束腰修長，
上飾蓮瓣紋一周，高圈足。
此壺修長停勻，紋飾為一體鑄造，錦地層次豐
富，規整利落。壺身所飾錦地皆宋元流行式樣，
參考一件標準器，意大利熱那亞國立愛德華
多·基歐索尼東方藝術博物館藏元代銅錦地方
壺，所飾錦地與本件相同，見D.Failla，《Food
for the Ancestors, Flowers for the Gods》，熱
那亞，2017年，頁134，圖7.7。亦可參考一
件倫敦維多利亞及艾伯特博物館藏一件元代六
方瓶，館藏編號179-1899；以及美國大都會博
物館藏一件十三/十四世紀四方銅瓶，館藏編號
2015.272。

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