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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE 'CLOUD' ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Ming Dynasty
2022 年 5 月 29 日 14:00 HKT
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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE 'CLOUD' ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Ming Dynasty
The partly-gilt bulbous body decorated with archaistic taotie masks divided by flanges, rising from a spreading foot with wave pattern to a tall cylindrical neck decorated with gilt cloud swirls above a band of further archaistic taotie masks, the mouth flanked with a pair of cylindrical tubular handles further decorated with archaistic masks. 23.1cm (9 1/8in) high, 1.069kg.
The partly-gilt bulbous body decorated with archaistic taotie masks divided by flanges, rising from a spreading foot with wave pattern to a tall cylindrical neck decorated with gilt cloud swirls above a band of further archaistic taotie masks, the mouth flanked with a pair of cylindrical tubular handles further decorated with archaistic masks. 23.1cm (9 1/8in) high, 1.069kg.
Footnotes
明 局部銅鎏金饕餮紋投壺
Provenance:
The Brian Harkins Collection
來源：
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏
The present vase displays archaic motifs inspired by ritual bronzes of the Shang and Western Zhou dynasty as demonstrated in the taotie masks and in the 'wave' pattern motif around the foot. Archaism saw revival from the Song dynasty, and the present 'wave' pattern also relates and is in continuity to that seen on a bronze fu vessel, dated to 1314 in the Shanghai Museum.
Compare a similar style of gilt decoration on a related bronze arrow vase, late Ming dynasty, illustrated by D.Failla, Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods, Genova, 2017, p.240, fig.11.1.
壺口方唇，兩側鑄貫耳，貫耳及壺口飾饕餮紋，頸部局部鎏金飾兩朵卷雲紋，頸部飾饕餮紋一周，肩部起地飾柿葉，扁圓鼓腹，出四扇形扉棱，四面飾饕餮紋，正中出短戟成鼻，束腰飾卷雲狀蟠夔紋，壺身饕餮紋、柿葉紋、圈足皆局部鎏金。
局部鎏金可參考意大利熱那亞國立愛德華多·基歐索尼東方藝術博物館所藏一件明代銅局部鎏金投壺，見D.Failla，《Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods》，熱那亞，2017年，頁240，編號11.1。