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A RARE BRONZE SQUARE ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Yuan Dynasty
Of square section with a spreading foot cast with inverted archaistic
lappets, rising to a square body flanked by lion-head handles, the
shoulders with four panels enclosing lotus buds and leaves, the tall
neck flanked at the top by a pair of handles and decorated with four
bands of different diamond diaper grounds, the lowest band further
decorated with four treasures and followers, the body decorated with
key-fret and other archaistic diaper grounds, the bronze of a dark
reddish-brown patina.
46.8cm (18 3/8in) high, 8.4kg.
HKD70,000 - 100,000
US$8,900 - 13,000
元 銅貫耳雜文錦地鋪首四方投壺
Provenance:
The Brian Harkins Collection
來源：
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏

The intricate diaper grounds decorating the present vase are typical of 壺四面方正，口方唇，兩側鑄貫耳，口及貫耳飾方口窗棱紋錦地，長
bronze vessels dating to the Southern Song and the Yuan dynasties. 頸紋飾分三層，上層三角形錦地，其內點圓點，中層龜甲紋錦地，亦
Compare with three bronze vases, Yuan dynasty, in the Edoardo 點圓點，下層菱花紋錦地，內飾雜卉、八寶及平行棱線，平肩，肩分
Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa, Italy, all decorated with 四格，每格飾四季花卉，壺腹左右兩側正中鑄獸首，獸首兩側飾陽線
groups of diaper-patterns in three bands, illustrated by D.Failla, Food 雲紋，壺身前後兩側飾菱花紋錦地，高圈足，束腰飾俯葉蕉葉紋，足
for the Ancestors, Flowers for the Gods, Genova, 2017, pp.134-135, 圈分兩層。
figs.7.7-7.9.
此壺四方，鑄造難度頗大，錦地紋飾複雜，與壺身一體鑄造成大體之
Compare also a tripod bronze vase excavated from a Southern 後再鏨刻細部而成。此類反複多變之多層錦地在南宋至元代銅器上頗
Song hoard in Pengzhou, decorated with latticework to the handles, 為流行，參考三件意大利熱那亞國立愛德華多·基歐索尼東方藝術博
illustrated by the National Museum of China, Songyun: Sichuan 物館所藏元代銅壺，皆是一體三層錦地，見《Food for the Ancestors
Jiaocang Wenwu Jicui (The Style of Song: Cultural Relics Unearthed Flowers for the Gods》，熱那亞，2017年，頁134-135，圖7.7-7.9，
in Sichuan Province), Beijing, 2006, p.212. See also a bronze 'garlic- 可見為一時風氣。貫耳之窗欞紋錦地可比較彭州南宋窖藏出土之三足
head' vase, Yuan dynasty, excavated from the Zhibiao Pagoda in 銅壺腹部所飾窗欞紋錦地環帶，見中國國家博物館編，《宋韻：四川
Haining, Zhejiang, with a similar hexagonal ground, illustrated by 窖藏文物輯粹》，北京，2006年， 頁212；龜甲紋錦地可比較浙江海
M.Wang in the 'Song Yuan Fanggu Qingtongqi Shang De Wenyang', 寧智標塔出土之元代蒜頭銅瓶所飾龜背紋，見王牧撰，《宋元仿古青
Shoucangjia (The Collectors), October 2010, p.48, pl.11. 銅器上的紋樣》，載於《收藏家》，2010年10，頁48，圖11。

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