Coco Li
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Lot 26
A PAIR OF ARCHAIC BRONZE SQUARE WINE VESSELS, FANG HU
Han dynasty
20 March 2023, 08:30 EDT
New YorkSold for US$15,300 inc. premium
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A PAIR OF ARCHAIC BRONZE SQUARE WINE VESSELS, FANG HU
Han dynasty
Each in pear-shaped silhouette raised on square high foot, the mouth flaring slightly with a raised border, cast on the shoulders a pair of taotie masks and suspended ring handles, the surface showing golden-tan colors of uncorroded bronze interspersed with malachite and earth encrustations.
16 1/2in (41.8cm) high; 8 7/16in (21.5cm) wide (2).
Each in pear-shaped silhouette raised on square high foot, the mouth flaring slightly with a raised border, cast on the shoulders a pair of taotie masks and suspended ring handles, the surface showing golden-tan colors of uncorroded bronze interspersed with malachite and earth encrustations.
16 1/2in (41.8cm) high; 8 7/16in (21.5cm) wide (2).
Footnotes
漢 饕餮啣環耳銅鈁壺一對
Compare the similar bronze fang hu discovered in 1996 from a Western Han tomb at Chaohu, Anhui province, illustrated in the excavation report Han Burials in Chaohu, Beijing, 2007, col. pl. 5-3 and 5-4, with description on p. 27 and a line drawing on p. 28. Two other bronze fang hu discovered in 1997 at the same Chaohu cemetery are also illustrated in the excavation report, op. cit., col. pl. 45-5, with description on p. 99 and a line drawing on p. 98.
A similar bronze fang hu and cover excavated in 1983 from the tomb of the second king of Nanyue (d. approx. 122 B.C.) in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, is illustrated in the excavation report, Nanyue King's Tomb of the Western Han, Beijing, 1991, pl. 16-2 in Vol. II, with description in Vol. I, p. 47 and a line drawing on p. 49.