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A RARE BRONZE 'BUDDHIST LIONS' ARROW VASE, TOUHU Song/Yuan Dynasty
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A RARE BRONZE 'BUDDHIST LIONS' ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Song/Yuan Dynasty
Cast with a compressed globular body rising from a spreading foot cast with a band of stylised lotus petals and surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, the shoulder cast with scrolling lotus, all below four Buddhist lions playing with brocade balls in high relief, a pair of tubular lug handles flanking the upper part of the neck with archaistic hexagonal pattern, the bronze patinated to a warm coppery-brown colour. 39cm (15 3/8in) high, 3.7kg.
Cast with a compressed globular body rising from a spreading foot cast with a band of stylised lotus petals and surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, the shoulder cast with scrolling lotus, all below four Buddhist lions playing with brocade balls in high relief, a pair of tubular lug handles flanking the upper part of the neck with archaistic hexagonal pattern, the bronze patinated to a warm coppery-brown colour. 39cm (15 3/8in) high, 3.7kg.
Footnotes
宋/元 銅四獅戲球雙耳投壺
Provenance:
Gardiners, Kilbarchan, 16 September 1991
The Brian Harkins Collection
來源：
1991年9月16日購於蘇格蘭基爾巴亨Gardiners
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏
The globular body and tall foot of the present vase are both unusual designs compared with the more typical arrow vases cast with a compressed body and a wide spreading foot. Compare with a Yuan to early Ming dynasty bronze vase, with a similar globular body raised from a similar tall foot, in the Tokugawa Art Museum, Japan, illustrated by D.Failla, Food for the Ancestors, Flowers for the Gods, 2017, p.307, fig.5.
壺口薄唇，兩側鑄較小貫耳，其上鏨刻龜背紋錦地，壺頸鑄高浮雕雙獅戲球兩組，肩部內層飾浮雕蓮瓣紋，外層陰刻連枝蓮紋一周，圓鼓腹，光素無紋，束腰飾浮雕蓮瓣紋一周，高圈足。
此壺圓鼓腹及高圈足之器型有別於多數常見之投壺，常見器型多為扁圓腹，圈足外撇成喇叭形。此類器型，似乎更常見於花插，參考一件日本德川美術館藏元/明銅壺，其圓鼓腹，高圈足與本件類似，見Donatella Failla編，《Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods》，熱那亞，2017年，頁307，編號5。