Description: 方壺以大塊玉料精磨而成,玉質白皙凝潤。壺方口,直頸,溜肩, 腹深而垂鼓,方形。壺身為素面,偶有沁色,更顯古樸,也更好的 展現出玉質的無暇,正所謂「良玉不雕」。壺在頸肩部位凸出雕刻 兩獸面紋飾,且獸口銜以玉環。瑞獸雙耳外撇,雙目凸出,寬鼻闊 口,形像生動,栩栩如真。整件方壺模仿古代青銅器的的藝術造 型,匠人以前代古物為藍本,制作諸多仿古器物,在追求形神肖似 的同時,亦融入文人雅士的審美偏好,形成鮮明而獨特的時代風 格,此品即為此類較好的例證之一。 This lot is made of alarge scaled boulder of jade , the archaistic fanghu form with a rounded lower body rising from a spreading foot to a tapering square neck flanked by tubular handles of square section, the body cast in relief with classic taotie masks with jade ring in their mouths surrounded by inverted S-form spirals below a field of swirling waves, the handles and foot with leiwen.