Lot 169
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
二十世紀 大型碧玉饕餮獸紋帶蓋方罍 連木座(一對)
each of rectangular form, decorated in shallow relief with bands of taotie masks and the lowest a band of plantain leaves infilled with kui-phoenixes, front centre with a vertical row of three mythical beast head knobs, scrolling flanges on the edges and centre, two mythical beast heads holding rings as side handles, the dark green stone with areas of darker spinach-green mottling, on wooden stands (2)
81.2cm high each; on stand: 100cm and 101cm high
Private Irish collection, Holywood; acquired by current owner's parents in San Francisco, USA, about 20 years ago
北愛爾蘭私人收藏,霍利伍德鎮;約廿年前由現任藏家父輩入藏自美國舊金山
These jade versions of covered vessels are based on the ritual wine containers, lei, made of bronze, only produced briefly from the late Shang (c.1600-c.1046 BC) to early Western Zhou dynasty (c.1046-771 BC). The square form of these vessels, fang lei, are the rarest and most prized, produced only in the Late Shang dynasty. A related bronze archaistic and documented fang lei, of similar form to this lot, of the Shang dynasty, previously in the Qing Court, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, museum number: Gu 故77483. Also see a bronze covered wine vessel (fang lei) with design of zoomorphic masks and animal-headed handles, in Saint Louis Art Museum, object number 2:1941a,b.
本品碧玉方罍是仿青銅器而作。 罍,古代盛酒器,最早見於商代晚期,流行至春秋時期,有圓方二種形式。圓形罍在商、周初期都有,方罍只出現在商代晚期。參一清宮舊藏商代青銅方罍,形制與本品相似,現藏於北京故宮,館藏號「故77483」;另見一西周青銅方罍,藏於聖路易藝術博物館,館藏號「2:1941a,b」。