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A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE PAINTED WINE VESSEL AND Provenance:
COVER, ZUN A Hong Kong private collection, acquired in Hong Kong on
Western Han Dynasty 16 March 2001
The body rising from three crouching bear-shaped feet, and incised
with two bands of scrolling clouds between three raised bands on the 來源:
mouth rim, mid-body and the base rim, the side set with opposing 香港私人收藏，於2001年3月16日購於香港
taotie mask and loose-ring handles, the domed cover with two domed
bands incised with scrolling clouds between two hollow bands of Compare the shape, incised decoration and painted bird with a very
triangles, and evenly set with three long-tailed birds encircling a loose similar gilt-bronze zun, Western Han Dynasty, unearthed in Xi’an,
ring, all thickly gilt, the interior of the cover and the base painted with a now in the collection of Shannxi Academy of Archaeology, which is
stylised phoenix in green on a red ground, box. illustrated in The Complete Collection of Bronzes Unearthed in China,
18.5cm (7 1/4in) high. (2). Beijing, 2019, vol.17, pl.650.

HKD500,000 - 800,000 蓋隆頂三層，最頂上安活環，中間一層安三個等距翹尾鳳凰形鈕，蓋
US$64,000 - 100,000 身鏨刻四圈雲氣紋及山形紋，蓋樽作圓筒形，直壁，上中下起三棱帶，
棱帶之間鏨刻雲氣紋，兩側安饕餮銜環鋪首，平底，下承三熊形足，通
西漢 銅鎏金鏨刻雲氣紋彩繪鳥紋樽 體鎏金，蓋內及樽外底繪紅地綠彩鳳鳥紋，保存完好，色彩艷麗。

陝西省西安市出土一件漢代鎏金樽形制、鏨刻紋飾乃至彩繪鳥紋與
本件皆似，現藏陝西省考古研究院，見《中國出土青銅器全集》，北
京，2019年，卷17，編號650。

Image courtesy of the Shaanxi
Academy of Archaeology
陝西省考古研究院藏
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