A BRONZE TRIPOD EWER AND COVER, HE

SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC)

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A BRONZE TRIPOD EWER AND COVER, HE
SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-476 BC)
The compressed body raised on three legs surmounted by scrolls, the sides encircled by two bands of fine scroll pattern within raised borders, and bands of scroll-filled blades above and below, with a dragon-head spout on one side opposite an openwork scroll flange on the other, the similarly decorated cover surmounted by a loop attached to a link chain which would attach to the loop on the underside of the faceted arch handle decorated with two further openwork flanges, with mottled pale green encrustation
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) across

拍品專文

He of this distinct type were produced during the Spring and Autumn period in various regions of China: the northern states of Jin and Qin, the eastern states of Qi and Lu and the southern state of Chu, indicating an exchange of ideas and materials. They share the same body shape encircled by similarly arranged bands of fine decoration, have an animal-headed spout opposite an openwork flange on the other side of the body and have a similar thick, arched handle, often decorated with further flanges or other high-relief decoration. See the he from the tomb of Fu Chai, King of Wu State, with more ornate openwork handle, now in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery, p. 34; another illustrated in Selected Bronzes in the Collection of the Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, no. 224; and one excavated from the Eastern Zhou dynasty tomb of Huqiu in Suzhou province in 1975, illustrated in Wenwu, 1981:11, p. 52. The fine intricate decoration on these vessels was achieved with the use of the lost-wax process and impressed molds.