Auction Closed
May 7, 03:37 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 40,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
cast with deep rounded sides rising from a tall flared foot to an everted rim, the exterior decorated below the ri♒m with three mythical beast masks, each flanked by dragon motifs, all above raised studs against a densely diapered ground and echoing dragon motifs around the foot, Japanese wood box
d. 24.5 cm; h. 16 cm
Hayashi Minao and Higuchi Takayasu, Fugendo Sakamoto Goro Chugoku seidoki seisho [Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Sakamoto Collection], Tokyo, 2002, 🀅cat. no. 149.
Compare a late Shang dynasty vessel decorated with studs and leiwen motifs, preserved in the Shaanxi History Museum, Xi’an, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese bronze vessels], vol. 4, Beijing, 1997, no. 34. See also a related late Shang - early Western Zhou dynasty vessel, inscribed with the characters tian min fu gui, similarly cast without handles, but with ༺more rounded studs🔥, sold in our New York rooms, 17th March 2021, lot 195.
出版
林巳奈夫及樋口隆康,《不言堂坂本五郎中国青銅器清賞》,東京,2002年,圖版149
簋方口折沿,直腹微收,高圈足外撇,口沿下前後飾高浮雕獸首,獸首對稱飾龍紋一對,腹部以網♔格相間,每個之內飾回紋及高浮雕乳丁一顆,圈足亦飾龍紋兩對。
陝西歷史博物館藏一件商晚期乳丁雷紋簋可資比較,見《中國青銅器全集》,北京,1997年,卷4,編號34。又可比較紐約蘇富比售出一件商末 / 西周初天黽父癸簋,屬❀於同類無耳簋,惟乳丁較ও圓潤,2021年3月17日,編號195。