Description

青铜饕餮纹帶出戟方彝

商 公元前11世纪

Dimensions: cover 13×9.5×9.5 cm; body 16.5x13x9.5cm; overall height 25cm

尺寸：盖13×9.5×9.5 厘米，身16.5x13x9.5厘米；通体高25厘米

Provenance:

– Acquired from Wui Gu Hin Hong Kong in 1989

来源:

1989年购自香港Wui Gu Hin

 

The rare bronze food vessel or ‘fang yi’ of slightly tapering, rectangular form. The sides cast with three separate sections of ‘taotie’ masks, divided by notched flanges at the corners and in the centre. The cover with a nearly identical, yet inverted design, set below the faceted finial. The surface has a mottled blue-green and milky blue-green patination.

 

方彝珍罕，身形长方微撇。侧面饕餮纹三组, 四角和中心铸出戟。顶盖纹饰倒转，盖钮凹凸有致。斑驳蓝绿铜锈。

‘Fangyi’ (literally ‘square vessel’) were used as wine containers and are some of the rarest ritual vessels, only found in the most sumptuous tombs, compared to the more commonly found shapes, such a ‘gu’, ‘ding’ and ‘yue’. They are shaped like houses, of rectangular form with a roof-shaped lid, topped with a roof-shaped finial.

 

方彝，形状四方，用作盛酒，部分珍罕之器仅出土于华贵墓穴，相比之下，如觚、鼎及钺等则出自普通墓穴。方彝，形同房屋，身形四方，盖顶如房顶，盖钮亦如房顶。

 

Compare a similar wine vessel (Late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century B.C.), from the Sze Yuan Tang Collection, Christie’s New York, 16 September 2010, lot 822 and a slightly later vessel (Early Western Zhou dynasty, ca. 1025–ca. 975 BCE) in the collection of the Smithsonian, Accession Number F1930.54a-b.

 

参照思源堂旧藏公元前12-11世纪商代晚期酒器，2010年9月16日纽约佳士得拍卖，拍品编号822，以及另一件年份较晚公元前1025-975年西周早期酒器，史密森学会藏，藏品编号F1930.54a-b。