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拍品专文
The yi is a water vessel that was used in conjuction with a pan for the ritual washing of hands. It was a late Western Zhou adaptation of the gong or the he and continued into the Eastern Zhou period.
The current yi is remarkable for retaining its original cover. A distinguishing feature of the current vessel itself is the animal head that straddles the pouring channel creating the appearance of a wide-open mouth. Other yi featuring animal heads, either dragon-like or tiger-like, that straddle the pouring channels include one from the Qing Court Collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Bronze Ritual Vessels and Musical Instruments – 27 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 212-13, no. 135, and other examples dated to the early Spring and Autumn period illustrated by Wu Zhenfeng, ed., in Shang Zhou qing tong qi ming wen ji tu xiang ji cheng (Corpus of Inscriptions and Images from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties), Shanghai, 2012, vol. 26, nos. 14933, 14964, 14981, and 14989. It is unclear if some of these yi vessels of this particular type, with animal masks straddling the pouring channels, were intended to have covers such as that seen of the current vessel.
Jenny So illustrates in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. III, New York, 1995, p. 339, fig. 67.2, an yi vessel with tiger-headed cover that covers the entire vessel. From Shaanxi Qishan Dongjiacun and dated to the middle to late Western Zhou dynasty, 9th century BC, So states, p. 338, that it “seems to illustrate the intermediate stage between animal-shaped vessel and yi.”
The current yi is remarkable for retaining its original cover. A distinguishing feature of the current vessel itself is the animal head that straddles the pouring channel creating the appearance of a wide-open mouth. Other yi featuring animal heads, either dragon-like or tiger-like, that straddle the pouring channels include one from the Qing Court Collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Bronze Ritual Vessels and Musical Instruments – 27 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 212-13, no. 135, and other examples dated to the early Spring and Autumn period illustrated by Wu Zhenfeng, ed., in Shang Zhou qing tong qi ming wen ji tu xiang ji cheng (Corpus of Inscriptions and Images from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties), Shanghai, 2012, vol. 26, nos. 14933, 14964, 14981, and 14989. It is unclear if some of these yi vessels of this particular type, with animal masks straddling the pouring channels, were intended to have covers such as that seen of the current vessel.
Jenny So illustrates in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. III, New York, 1995, p. 339, fig. 67.2, an yi vessel with tiger-headed cover that covers the entire vessel. From Shaanxi Qishan Dongjiacun and dated to the middle to late Western Zhou dynasty, 9th century BC, So states, p. 338, that it “seems to illustrate the intermediate stage between animal-shaped vessel and yi.”