商晚期 公元前十三至十一世紀 青銅饕餮紋方彝

of well cast slightly tapering rectangular form, the decoration divided into three sections, the central frieze with a large taotie with protuberant eyes and slit pupils, hooked and curling horns, flanked between narrow registers of confronting long-snouted kui dragons, all against a finely cast leiwen ground vertically separated by narrow, notched flanges, and supported on a hollow foot with arched apertures at the center of each side, the slightly convex roof-shaped cover with its knop of the same shape similarly decorated, the interior of the cover with a single large pictogram Zhu, the reddish-brown surface lightly encrusted with malachite and some scattered azurite, wood stand, Japanese wood box (4)

第二次世界大戰前購於日本。

The body has multiple restored cracks. The cover is in good condition.
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此類方器有平面線條和浮雕紋飾兩種，有的帶邊棱，有的沒有。Robert W. Bagley編《Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler collects ions》，華盛頓D. C.，1987年，頁429-444，書中刊載各式不同類型之方彝。此拍品許多特徵與書中不同作例十分相類，蓋上圓狀分棱與圖77.15之例相仿，細長的邊棱及微浮雕紋飾與品號78類同，收斂的邊棱似品號79。有件相似方彝屬Gladys Lloyd Robinson及英國鐵路養老基金會舊藏，於倫敦蘇富比1989年12月12日售出，拍品編號8。