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A LARGE BRONZE ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Song/Yuan Dynasty
The compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot crisply cast
with archaistic taotie masks on a leiwen ground, the tall slender neck
adorned on with a pair of playful chilong, the top of the neck flanked
by a pair of tubular lug handles, decorated with key-fret pattern, the
shoulders with elegantly curved quatrefoil pattern above the plain body
divided by four flanges.
50cm (19 3/4in) high, 6.2kg.
HKD100,000 - 150,000
US$13,000 - 19,000

宋/元 銅饕餮雷紋投壺
Provenance:
The Brian Harkins Collection

來源：
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏

The quatrefoil pattern on the shoulder was a popular motif during the 壺口圓唇，口沿兩側鑄貫耳，上飾細密回紋錦地，壺頸攀附二螭龍，
Spring and Autumn period to Han dynasty, which was called shidi wen 螭龍修長，獨角，三爪，尾不分叉，躬身成鋬，肩部起地一層作柿蒂
(persimmon sepal pattern) by Chinese scholars. See the design on 狀，圓鼓腹，出四短厚扉棱，腹部每面光素，圈足外撇高企，上飾仿
the top of the lid of a gilt-bronze wine vessel, zun, late Western Han, 古饕餮紋四面。
in the Shanxi Provincial Museum, which is illustrated in Zhongguo
qingtongqi quanji (Complete Collection of Chinese Bronze), Beijing, 此壺造型典雅大氣，不著餘飾。肩部所飾柿蒂源自戰漢時期，西漢
1998, vol.12, p.40. It was rarely seen on the designs from Jin to Tang 銅器及漆器蓋頂所飾柿蒂紋。參考山西博物院一件西漢晚期銅鎏金
dynasties, however, appeared again in Song dynasty and seemed to 樽，其蓋鈕之下所飾便是此種柿蒂紋，見《中國青銅器全集》，北
have resumed its popularity in the Yuan dynasty. 京，1998年，卷12，頁40。晉代至唐代極少再見此紋飾。宋代重新出
現，但不常見，可比較江西出土一件南宋銀鎏金魁星盤，其形狀便如
Compare the outline of the present leaves with the shape of a gilt-silver 此件之四瓣柿蒂，見浙江省博物館編，《中興紀勝: 南宋風物觀止》
'Kuixing' dish, Southern Song dynasty, excavated in Jiangxi, illustrated ，北京，2015年，頁234。
by the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Zhongxing Jisheng: Nansong
Fengwu Guanzhi (The Achievement of the Southern Song Dynasty),
Beijing, 2015, p.234. Compare also the petals on the shoulders of a
bronze vase, 14th/15th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, acc.no.:2019.264.

Image courtesy of Shanxi Provincial Museum
山西博物院藏

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