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A BLACK JADE ARCHAISTIC HU-FORM
VASE
19TH / 20TH CENTURY
the pear-shaped body rising from a tall spreading
foot, at the neck two openwork handles in the form of
a mythical beasts scaling the vessel, the body carved
with four registers of interlaced kuilong and a ! fth
register of vertical lappets, ‘twisted rope’ bands dividing
the registers, the stone black with two white passages
Height 9? in., 23.5 cm
PROVENANCE
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco.
The formal origins of this vase are to be found in deep
antiquity, with the shape and ornament inspired by
bronze hu vessels of the Eastern Zhou period (770-221
BC), which themselves ! nd their precedent as early
as the Anyang phase of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1300-
1056 BC). Ancient bronze hu functioned as ritual wine
vessels and were cast for use in certain ceremonies
and in commemoration of speci! c events.
來源
S. Bernstein & Co.，舊金山
