Gigi Yu
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Lot 325
A RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE VESSEL, GUI
Song/Ming Dynasty
29 May 2023, 13:00 HKT
Hong Kong, AdmiraltySold for HK$435,200 inc. premium
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A RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE VESSEL, GUI
Song/Ming Dynasty
Of compressed globular form rising from a tall spreading foot and set to each side with a pair of loop handles issuing from dragon heads, cast around the exterior with taotie masks, divided by a central notched flange, the details highlighted in gold and silver inlay, cover, stand and box.
25cm (9 7/8in) wide
Of compressed globular form rising from a tall spreading foot and set to each side with a pair of loop handles issuing from dragon heads, cast around the exterior with taotie masks, divided by a central notched flange, the details highlighted in gold and silver inlay, cover, stand and box.
25cm (9 7/8in) wide
Footnotes
宋/明 銅錯金銀獸面簋式爐
The present lot is exceptional in its intricacy of form and detail of design with the inspiration from Shang dynasty ritual archaic bronze gui vessel and inlaid decoration from the Warring States period. It was revived and became popular from the Song dynasty onwards when archaism became a predominant style in the production of artefacts. Compare the Ming dynasty gold and silver inlaid bronze incense burner bearing the Hu Wenming mark, included in the exhibition catalogue Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, no.73. See also an example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, previously in the collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 7 October 2014, lot 3350.
簋圓形侈口，短頸內束，圓扁腹外鼓，兩側置一對摩羯耳，獸口接環耳，頸側處飾龍紋，高圈足。短頸處前後以凸出的獸首為中心左右展開一對鳳鳥紋飾，與近足處的鳥紋相呼應，腹體上則呈現碩大的獸面形象，嵌入金銀絲線，捶打牢固後打磨光滑而成，盡顯工藝的精湛水準。宋朝在修訂禮典制度的過程崇尚仿古，並開始大規模仿造商代銅器。而在這其中也從戰國銅器中借鑒，於器體表面施展華麗的錯金銀裝飾。兩件銅錯金銀獸面簋式爐例子可資參考，一件明代胡文明製饕餮夔紋青銅香爐，1986年於香港東方陶瓷學會《Arts from the Scholar's Studio》展出，香港，1986年，編號73。另見香港蘇富比2014年10月7日售出一例銅錯金銀夔龍紋簋式爐，定代晚明，烏爾里希·豪斯曼（Ulrich Hausmann)舊藏，拍品3350。