拍品专文
The hu was used for storing wine or water and in the Spring and Autumn period its rectangular version was usually of large or medium size.
A larger example (66 cm. high) of slightly more elongated proportions from the same period, unearthed in 1988 from tomb no. 251, Jinsheng village, Taiyuan, Shanxi province and now in the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, was included in the exhibition, China 5,000 Years, H. Rogers ed., New York, 1998, no. 43, and is discussed in depth, along with three other identical fanghu found in the same tomb, by Zhu Qixin, 'Bronze Vessels from a Spring and Autumn Period Tomb', Chinese Bronzes: Selected Articles from Orientations 1983-2000 , June 2000, pp. 104-107.
A larger example (66 cm. high) of slightly more elongated proportions from the same period, unearthed in 1988 from tomb no. 251, Jinsheng village, Taiyuan, Shanxi province and now in the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, was included in the exhibition, China 5,000 Years, H. Rogers ed., New York, 1998, no. 43, and is discussed in depth, along with three other identical fanghu found in the same tomb, by Zhu Qixin, 'Bronze Vessels from a Spring and Autumn Period Tomb', Chinese Bronzes: Selected Articles from Orientations 1983-2000 , June 2000, pp. 104-107.