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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
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A COPPER-INLAID BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD POURING
VESSEL, HE
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The vessel is cast in relief with three bands of confronted birds, the He of this shape were made in different styles, some with more
body of one inverted, bordered by narrow, copper-inlaid bands of elaborate features than others. This he belongs to the group which
continuous scrolls, and is supported on three legs, each in the form used exotic and fanciful elements as decoration. Jenny So in Eastern
of a bird with spread wings perched on the shoulders of a crouching Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol.
humanoid figure. The forequarters of a bird with hinged beak forms III, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington D.C., 1995, p.
the spout on one side opposite its tail projecting from the other side. 409, discusses the differences of he made in the north and the
The cover has a monkey-form finial connected by a chain to the arched south during the Eastern Zhou period, and notes that those from
handle formed as the body of a feline-like animal. the south have more elaborate decoration than those from the
11Ω in. (29.1 cm.) long north. So illustrates a number of he, pp. 410-11, figs. 84.2-84.5,
that demonstrate the differences in decoration, one of which is
the example from the Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection, The
$80,000-120,000
Art Institute of Chicago, p. 411, fig. 84.3, which is dated 5th or 4th
century BC. The Buckingham vessel is very similar to the present
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1991. he, except for the main bands of decoration, which differ from the
very rare design of repeated pairs of confronted birds seen on the
present vessel, in which the body of the bird on the left is inverted.
戰國 青銅錯紅銅鳳鳥紋三足鳥首提樑盉
The Buckingham he is also illustrated by Charles F. Kelley and Ch'en
Meng-chia in Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection, The
Art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pp. 109-11, pl. LXII.

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