Early Warring States Period The globular body rising from a waisted short foot decorated with open-work phoenixes, its sides crisply cast with three bands of tight abstract kui dragons between three raised borders inlaid with copper scrolls, with overall mottled green, red and blue encrustation, box. 25.5cm (10in) high (2).Footnotes戰國早期 青銅蟠夔紋嵌紅銅壺 Provenance: J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 17 April 2004 來源: 藍理捷藝廊，紐約，2004年4月17日 Compare with a closely related archaic bronze hu, early Warring States Period, in the Shanghai Museum, which is illustrated by P.F.Chen in the Xiashangzhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Dongzhou xia (The Study of Archaic Bronzes in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties: VII of Eastern Zhou Dynasty), Shanghai, 2004, pl.567. 平口，短樹頸，溜肩，鼓腹，矮圈足外撇，頸部飾交尾夔龍紋，雷紋為地，壺身起三匝環帶，帶內嵌紅銅飾卷雲紋，肩部與腹部環帶之間及下腹部環帶與圈足之間皆飾交體夔龍紋，壺腹正中滿飾兩條變體夔龍紋組成之羽翅紋，圈足飾鏤空夔鳳紋一周。 此壺形體墩實，有商周青銅瓿遺風。身上所飾夔龍紋及羽翅紋鑄造清晰立體，加之鏤空圈足，頗為少見。可參考上海博物館藏一件戰國早期龍紋壺，紋飾鋪排與本件頗似，見陳佩芬著，《夏商周青銅器研究·東周篇下》，上海，2004年，編號567。