漢代筆記 vol.3 鎏金鏤空青銅奩：漢朝的動物世界，安思遠經手、克里夫蘭博物館所藏 - An Openwork Gilt Bronze Cylindrical Container with Cover (Lian), Robert Ellsworth, Cleveland Museum of Art Collection.

這件華麗的鍍金青銅器上有鏤空的裝飾，展示了各種奇妙的生物，有真實的，也有想像的，在旋轉的卷軸中互相追逐。它強調的是動作的連續韻律，而非動物搏鬥時的凶猛。這種形狀的圓柱形青銅器稱為奩，通常用作化妝盒。這件器物鏤空，十分精彩，具體用途不明，也許在漢朝時就是一件純粹的藝術品。

This magnificent gilded bronze vessel with openwork decoration shows all kinds of fabulous creatures, real and imaginary, chasing each other among swirling scrolls. There is an emphasis on the unbroken rhythms of movement, rather than the ferocity of animals in combat. Cylindrical bronze vessels in this shape, called lian, were often used as cosmetic boxes.

China, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)

Gilt bronze with openwork and chased designs

Diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.);

Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1972.44

Provenance

?-1972 (Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1972- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition History

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

這類器物深刻的影響了後世，隨後的唐代，出現了三彩製作的弦紋匲，比如寶石藍的珍貴藍釉弦紋奩（克里夫蘭博物館）；在宋代，宋徽宗致敬了漢朝作品，創作出了天青色的汝窯奩（現藏大英博物館，大衛德基金會）

參考：唐代筆記 Vol.8 藍釉三彩弦紋匲：大唐帝國的絢爛與克里夫蘭博物館珍寶 - Blue Glaze Tripod Lion, the Glory of Tang Dyansty and the Chinese Art from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection.

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