西周晚期 公元前九 / 八世紀 青銅夔龍紋鋪

cast with a wide concaved well encircled by low straight sides, decorated with a band of horizontal concentric lappets below the everted mouthrim, the high waisted pedestal foot cast with S-scroll double-dragon zoomorphs, further lappets and a wide undulating wave band enclosing detached scroll and loop elements

Robert Hatfield Ellsworth收藏，紐約，編號 B1160

The development of this vessel form is discussed in an article by Cheng-Mei Chang, 'Two Bronze Vessel Types: Tou and P'u', Oriental Art, vol. XXIII, no. 3, Autumn 1977, pp. 317ff., where several related examples are illustrated; see, in particular, four vessels excavated from tombs at Shangcunling, Shenxian, Henan province, figs. 6-10, and two related pieces depicted in woodblock illustrations of early Chinese bronze catalogues, fig. 14, from the Xi Qing gu jian, and fig. 16, from the Bo gu tu.