Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection
Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection
An inscribed gold and silver-inlaid bronze weight, Han dynasty | 漢 銅錯金銀熊虎鎮紙 《日利千金富》銘款
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An inscribed gold and silver-inlaid bronze weight
Han dynasty
漢 銅錯金銀熊虎鎮紙 《日利千金富》銘款
superbly cast portraying a bear and tiger fighting dynamically and forming a rounded outline, sumptuously inlaid in gold and silver with facial features and stripes, the base incised with a five-character inscription within a recessed cartouche translating to 'daily growth of a thousand pieces of gold'
6.8 cm
Collection of George de Menasce (1890-1967).
Collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson.
Eskenazi Ltd, London, 1st July 1991.
George de Menasce（1890-1967年）收藏
J.M.A.J. Dawson 收藏
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1991年7月1日
A closely related gold and silver-inlaid bronze weight, cast with a tiger and a boar, is in the collection of the British Museum, accession no. 1982,0402.1, where Jessica Rawson notes that the life and death struggle of the two animals is very different from the static, almost timeless, stance of creatures depicted on early bronzes and that animals in combat were favourite subjects in the Near East and among China's nomadic neighbours, such as the peoples whose lords were buried in the frozen tombs of Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains of south Siberia. It is probable that nomadic woodwork, textiles and bronze were known to the Chinese, who adapted similar scenes from them for the inlaid bronzes.
參考大英博物館藏相類錯金銀銅熊虎鎮紙，藏品編號 1982,0402.1，羅森指出，兩動物之間的生死博鬥，與古代青銅器上幾乎永恆之靜態描繪折然不同。這類題材，受近東和中國周邊游牧民族青睞，例如西伯利亞南部阿爾泰山脈帕茲里克墓主及其人民。中原或受遊牧民族木雕、織品、青銅器影響，遂製此類錯嵌工藝之銅作。
清代金石學著作《金石索》著錄了一件「漢日利千金壺」，註釋曰：「日利千金乃漢人吉利語，猶鏡銘之有日利大，萬家富千金也。」