A RARE CRYSTAL-INLAID RED AND BLACK LACQUERED RITUAL SPOON, BI
A RARE CRYSTAL-INLAID RED AND BLACK LACQUERED RITUAL SPOON, BI
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东周 公元前四至三世纪 彩漆云气纹匕

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 9)

细节
东周 公元前四至三世纪 彩漆云气纹匕10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) long, composite stand, plexiglass case
来源
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1995.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 2120.

荣誉呈献

Margaret Gristina (葛曼琪)
Margaret Gristina (葛曼琪) Senior Specialist, VP

拍品专文

A similarly decorated lacquer ritual spoon of closely related form but without a rock crystal insert was discovered at the Qin State cemetery in Shuihudi, Yunmeng, Hubei province, and is illustrated in Yunmeng Shuihudi Qin mu (Qin Tombs in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County), Beijing, 1981, pl. 17, no. 2 and in a line drawing on p. 33, pl. 34.

Archaeologists and scholars today refer to this form of long-handled spoon as a bi. According to the Eastern Han dynasty historian Zheng Xuan (AD 127-200) in his commentary on ancient rituals, the bi was used to handle and divide food during ceremonies.

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