A Rare Gilt-Decorated Copper Vase

SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

細節

A Rare Gilt-Decorated Copper Vase
Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
Made from thin sheet copper, the ovoid body gilt-decorated with two quatrefoil cartouches, one enclosing a young boy holding a peony sprig flanked by two large peony blossoms, the other enclosing a bird perched on a branch between two further peony blossoms, with lotus and prunus sprays between, and lotus sprigs between keyfret borders on the waisted neck, the rim cut and shaped with seven turned-over foliations, covered with a thin layer of clear lacquer
10in. (25.4cm.) high, box
Falk Collection no. 551.

來源

Mathias Komor, New York, August 1945.

拍品專文

The shape of this very rare metal vase is closely related to qingbai vases of Song dynasty date. For a qingbai vase of this shape, but of slightly fuller proportions, carved with decoration of boys playing amidst scrolling foliage, see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 607. Another qingbai vase, also with similar deep, turned-over foliations at the rim and similar slender, waisted neck, but a somewhat different body and taller spreading foot, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi, Song Yuan taoci daquan, Taipei, 1988, p. 99.