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The present pair of wine vases hu still retain some characteristics from 平口，一端有凹口，與壺蓋突出形成子母口，頸微束，腹鼓下垂，整體
hu in the Spring and Autumn period, such as the tiger-shaped handles 呈鴨梨形，圈足直壁，蓋穹頂，近口沿處鑄三環耳，蓋頂飾兩圈S形雷
and the motif of the combed braid. Compare with a related bronze hu 紋帶飾，壺身口沿下、肩部、胸部及腹部各飾一圈變體幾何龍紋帶飾，
in the Shangxi Provincial Museum, Spring and Autumn Period, which 一壺底足外壁飾繩紋，肩兩側安虎銜環鋪首，漫發藍鏽間以青綠。
is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Bronzes Unearthed in
China, Beijing, 2019, vol.4, pl.343. Compare also with a related bronze 此對壺構思精巧，口沿上下合卯精嚴，兩側虎耳鑄造生動，其壺耳與繩
hu, late Spring and Autumn Period, in the Changye County Museum 紋有春秋遺風。可比較陝西長冶縣博物館藏一件春秋晚期蟠龍紋壺，
of Shanxi, which is illustrated in the Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji 見《中國青銅器全集》，北京，1995年，卷8，圖版75；另可比較一件山西
(Complete Collection of Chinese Archaic Bronzes), Beijing, 博物院藏春秋壺，見《中國出土青銅器全集》，北京，2019年，卷4，
1995, vol.8, pl.75. 編號343。
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