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203 Compare with a similar bronze you in the Shanghai Museum,
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU early Western Zhou Dynasty, which is illustrated by P.F.Chen in the
Early Western Zhou Dynasty
The rounded elliptical body rising from a broad, thickly cast and slightly Xiashangzhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Xizhou Shamg (Study of the Archaic
spreading foot decorated with a frieze of two paired birds with long Bronzes of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Vol.I of Western Zhou
hooked tails in low relief on a leiwen ground divided at the middle by Dynasty), Shanghai, 2004, pl.267.Compare also with a related bronze
a high relief bovine mask on front and back, the shoulder set with you, early Western Zhou Dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby’s New
two loops on the bail handle concealed by two further bovine heads, York, 21 March 2018, lot 584.
the domed cover with a similar frieze near the edge above the slightly
concave sides, and with two neat bowstrings with everted tabs on 蓋隆頂，口沿微束，蓋頂近簷處飾一對鳳鳥，正中出戟，組成饕餮紋一
either end and surmounted by a ring-shaped knob, the interior of the 組，前後兩面，兩側耳狀隆起，圓形捉手，卣身平口，頸部略微內收，飾
body and cover each cast with the same three-character inscription 鳳鳥紋前後一對以正中凸起之貘首為對稱，兩側安環耳，環內套鑄U
zuo baoyi (Made this precious ritual vessel), the bronze mottled with 形提樑，兩頭作貘首，卣腹鼓下垂，圈足外撇，器蓋及身內鑄銘文三字：
green patina on the surface and green and azurite encrustation on the 「作寶彝」，綠鏽雜孔雀綠。
interior, box.
27.5cm (11 3/4in) high. (2). 此類垂腹貘首之提樑卣一度流行於西周早期，比較上海博物館藏一
件極其類似之例，見陳佩芬著，《夏商周青銅器研究：西周篇上》，上
HKD400,000 - 800,000 海，2004年，圖版267。又可參考蘇富比紐約售出一件西周早期提樑
US$51,000 - 100,000 卣，2018年3月21日，拍品編號584。
西周早期 青銅鳳鳥紋貘首提樑卣
銘文： 作寶彝（器底及蓋內）
Provenance:
T. T. Tsui Collection, acquired prior to the 1970s (by repute)
A Hong Kong private collection, acquired on 4 January 2011
來源:
傳徐展堂舊藏，蒐集於1970年代以前
香港私人收藏，於2011年1月4日購得
Illustrated and Published:
Imperial Treasures: Archaic Chinese Bronzes from the Golden Age of
China, Joyce Gallery, Hong Kong, 2012, pp.74-75
出版及著錄：
《吉金御賞》，御雅居，香港，2012年，頁74-75
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