A fine gilt-bronze food vessel with cover, ‘lian’ (Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century B.C.)
A fine gilt-bronze food vessel with cover, ‘lian’ (Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century B.C.)
A fine gilt-bronze food vessel with cover, ‘lian’ (Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century B.C.)
A fine gilt-bronze food vessel with cover, ‘lian’ (Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century B.C.)
A fine gilt-bronze food vessel with cover, ‘lian’ (Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century B.C.)

A fine gilt-bronze food vessel with cover, ‘lian’ (Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century B.C.)

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Description

青铜鎏金熊足龙纹帶盖奁

西周 公元前2世纪
Dimensions: 20cm diameter, 20cm high

尺寸：直径20厘米，高20厘米

 

Provenance:
– Acquired from Wui Gu Hin Hong Kong in 1989

来源

1989年购自香港Wui Gu Hin

 

The body of the cylindrical ‘lian’ raised on three bear-shaped legs, with bands at the base, rim and mid-body. The vessel with a pair of ‘taotie’ masks and loose ring handles. The domed cover is decorated with dragons and applied with three upright bird-form handles, doubling as supports when the cover is inverted. The outside of this rare, gilded ‘lian’ is decorated with a stylised dragon-pattern. The inside and base of the food vessel with further ‘bird’ drawings.

奁身置于三熊足之上，底、沿及中部饰带纹。器表一对饕餮纹，三只活把。龙纹盖面高隆，三把形同禽鸟，将奁倒转可用作支撑。作为食具，此龙纹鎏金奁实属珍罕，于内表及底部饰禽鸟。

 

Compare a similar vessel, inlaid with gold and silver in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Accession Number 50.46.49a,b.

类似器物参照另一嵌金银奁，明尼阿波利斯美术学院藏，藏品编号50.46.49a,b。

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