明 Rhyton來通牛头银杯

Description

牛头來通银杯

Rhyton來通杯塑造为动物的形象，如牛科、马科、鹿甚至犬科动物的头部，而液体则从这些动物的口中流出。来通的造型很像漏斗，可能也用来注酒。

• 镶金兽首玛瑙杯 【插圖】

高6.5厘米，长15.6厘米，口径5.6厘米。

杯的造型与西方“来通”相似。“来通”起源于西方，希腊的克里特岛在公元前1500年已出现此种器物，它像一只漏斗，可用于注神酒。当时人们相信来通角杯是圣物，用它注酒能防止中毒，如果举起来通将酒一饮而尽，则是向酒神致敬的表示。传到亚洲以后，来通广泛流行于美索不达米亚至外阿姆河地带的广大区域。该杯产地或认为来自西方，或认为出自唐工匠的仿制。

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Lot 1194 of 823:

After the Antique, a Roman bronze rhyton, in the manner of the Sommer or Chiurazzi foundry, moulded with a ram’s head terminal and foliate collar enriched with a profile portrait of a young woman, with scrolling handle, 18.5cm high Property of a Lady

ESTIMATE: £5,000 – £7,000

参考：TimeLine Auctions Ltd.
Harwich, Essex, UK
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Hellenistic Silver Rhyton with Deer Protome

Estimate £100,000 – £140,000

Lot 0052 Details

DESCRIPTION
2nd-1st century BC. A slender silver rhyton formed as the forepart of a roe deer with folded legs, the animal’s neck slightly arched; large eyes, eyebrows, nostrils and mouth modelled in relief; each antler with three tines, small hole to the breast; a slender steep horn with everted rim, the rim with a dentilled frieze on the top and Ionic kymation on the out-turned part; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. See Pfrommer, M., Metalwork from the Hellenized East, Catalogue of the Collections, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu,1993; Carter, M.L., Goldstein, S., Harper, P.O., Kawami, T.S., Meyers, P., Splendors of the Ancient East, Antiquities from the al-Sabah collection, London, 2013; Ebbinghaus, S., Feasting with gods, heroes, and kings, Cambridge, 2019.807 grams total, 22.5cm including stand (9″). Acquired by the current owner in London in 2006; previously with Michael O’Hara, Bedfordshire, UK; acquired from K.J. Hewitt, UK, in 1970; formerly acquired in London in the 1950s; accompanied by a copy of an eleven page examination report number 69/2008 by Dr. habil Mikhail Treister dated 6 December 2008; accompanied by an archaeological expertise by Dr. Raffaele D’Amato; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10273-168738. Rhyta are the horn-shaped vessels many ancient peoples used for drinking wine. The Greeks favoured horses and human or mythical heads of satyrs for their rhyta.

CONDITION
Very fine condition, restored.

参考： 苏富比 51
百獸呈祥：英國私人肖生動物珍藏
十七世紀 銅牛頭觥

2,000 — 3,000英鎊
拍品已售 5,250 英鎊 成交價 (含買家佣金)

拍品詳情
十七世紀 銅牛頭觥
13 公分，5 1/8 英寸

展覽
《Summer Exhibition》， Roger Keverne， 倫敦， 2003年， 編號14

相關資料
本觥之原型，見一灑金觥例，斷代唐朝，曾展於《Possessing the Past. Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei》，大都會藝術博物館，紐約，1996年，編號351 (e)。

同造型多製自十七世紀，多為玉器，台北國立故宮博物院藏一例，曾展於《古色–十六至十八世紀藝術的仿古風》，台北，2003年，編號III-26。

百獸呈祥：英國私人肖生動物珍藏
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