宋至明 銅錯金銀仿古饕餮紋蓋盉

of archaistic he form, cast with a compressed globular body resting on three slightly splayed and waisted legs and surmounted by a constricted neck and flared rim, the shoulder flanked by a long tapering cylindrical spout and a loop handle projecting from a bovine mask, the body bordered with two main registers enclosing gold and silver-inlaid taotie masks, divided by a raised band centred with a further raised rib decorated with a rope-twist motif, the handle, spout and legs intricately inlaid with gold and silver, the domed cover similarly inlaid with a taotie frieze and surmounted with a flared finial, the reddish-brown patina suffused with malachite encrustation

Rare Art，紐約，1976年
戴潤齋，紐約
紐約蘇富比2011年3月22日，編號227

The vessel is in overall good condition. There are very light overall losses to the gold and silver inlay. The silver inlay is tarnished in some areas.
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自宋以降，上乘銅錯金銀香爐，取古青銅器形制而鑄。可比一件擬古造型銅錯金銀饕餮紋沖天耳鼎式爐，為 Ulrich Hausmann 舊藏，售於香港蘇富比2014年10月8日，編號3335。

大量精美銅錯金銀銅器製於晚明，尤以胡文明製，工藝上乘。一件胡文明製銅錯金簋式爐，藏於北京故宮博物院，錄於《權利與榮耀：明代的宮廷藝術》，舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，三藩市，2008年，編號111。品質可相提並論之它例，包括一件胡文明製鼎式爐，屬Harry Garner爵士收藏，現存英國維多利亞與艾伯特博物館，錄於柯玫瑰著《晚期中國銅器》，倫敦，1990年，圖版41；以及一件瓿式爐， 紀年萬曆癸丑（1613），為 Peter Plesch 伉儷及水松石山房遞藏，後售於香港蘇富比2012年4月4日，編號118。

此類銅器之雛型，見一西周水器，連蓋，甚罕，售於紐約蘇富比2001年10月17日，編號11。另有兩例錄於 Jessica Rawson，《Western Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》，華盛頓，1990年，圖115.4及5。