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Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, New York, 1968, pl. 70. Two very similar bronze fang hu inlaid with
diagonally oriented geometric patterns arranged on a central axis are also known. The first, reportedly
excavated near Yulin fu, Shaanxi, in 1913, now in the National Gallery of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., gifted
by Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer in 1961, is illustrated in the catalogue Chinese Art of the Warring States
Period. Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982, cat. no. 7; the
second, discovered in 1957 in Hunan province is illustrated in An Exhibition of Archaeological Finds from
the People’s Republic of China, Tokyo, 1977, cat. no. 42. Another in the Meiyintang Collection, with the
body inlaid with an ornament on the body arranged by crossed diagonal bands is illustrated in Wang Tao,
Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2009, pl. 47.

Perhaps the most famous example of an inlaid fang hu from the period is the documentary ‘Chen Zhang’
fang hu, acquired from C.T. Loo in 1916 and now in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania,
bearing a twenty-nine-character inscription at the foot recording that the bronze was obtained from the Yan
state by a Qi general, Chen Zhang (also known as Tian Zhang, Zhangzi and Kuang Zhang) during a military
assault in 315 BC, included in the exhibition Chinese Bronzes of the Shang Through the Tang Dynasty,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, cat. no. 185, and further discussed in Yang Hua and Gilbert
K. Mattos, ‘The Chen Zhang Fanghu’, Orientations, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 57. Of similar design is an inlaid fang hu
from the famous ‘Jincun’ finds near Luoyang in Henan, illustrated in William Charles White, Tombs of Old
Lo-yang, Shanghai, 1934, pl. 109. Compare also a similar design inlaid in copper and malachite found on a
bronze dui from the Winthrop Collection, gifted to the Fogg Art Museum in 1943, and now in the Harvard Art
Museums, Cambridge (accession no. 1943.52.115), illustrated Jenny So, op. cit., p. 201, fig. 29.8.

《Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China》，紐約，1968 齊國將軍陳璋（又名田章、章子或匡章）在齊宣
年，圖版70。再有兩件青銅方壺，壺身斜嵌菱形 王五年（公元前315年）攻打燕國時所得。此壺曾
紋，其一據報出土於1913年陝西榆林府附近，現 展於《Chinese Bronzes of the Shang Through the Tang
藏於美國亞洲藝術博物館，由 Eugene 及 Agnes Dynasty》，紐約大都會藝術博物館，1938年，編號
E. Meyer 伉儷捐贈，載於圖錄《Chinese Art of the 185，記載於 Yang Hua 及馬幾道，〈The Chen Zhang
Warring States Period. Change and Continuity, 480-222 Fanghu〉，《Orientations》，卷32，期2，頁57。另
B.C.》，華盛頓弗利爾美術館，1982年，編號7，其 見一件在河南洛陽金村出土的青銅方壺，外觀與本
二，1957年在湖南被發現，載於《中華人民共和國 品相近，錄於懷履光，《洛陽古城古墓考》，上
出土文物展》，東京，1977年，編號42。另一近例 海，1934年，圖版109。
為玫茵堂藏幾何紋方壺，載於汪濤，《玫茵堂藏中 此外亦可參考溫索浦舊藏青銅敦，錯銅嵌孔雀石，
國銅器》，倫敦，2009年，圖版47。
所採用之工藝與本品類近，1943年贈予福格藝術博
陳璋方壺也許是最廣為人知的戰國時期方壺，1916 物館，現藏於哈佛藝術博物館，編號1943.52.115，
年從盧芹齋手上購入，現存位於費城的賓夕法尼亞 收錄於蘇芳淑，前述出處，頁201，圖29.8。
大學博物館。壺足刻二十九字銘文，記載此壺由