1. Description

Zun 尊 - a multi shaped wine vessel with wide opening and flat bottom. After coming up in early Shang times this vessel developed forms with a wide belly. The zun was a standard type vessel and was copied until Qing times. The character is a picture of the vessel and is taken in verbal sense with the meaning of “to rever, to venerate, to honor”. This rhinoceros from the Warring States period must have been in original in front of the artists. The climate 2500 years ago was much warmer than today, so that elephants and rhinos could make life at least south of the Yangtse.

盛酒器，西汉，兴平出土，一级文物，造型生动近于写实，它昂首前伸，眼窝凹陷眼球突出，透出一种处静而欲动的机警神态，躯体起伏而有臻，腹园鼓，健壮而丰满，但不臃肿，四足平稳落地，每足趾，腿部粗细得当，关切分明，整体造型庄重浑厚，神态惟妙惟肖，把犀牛身体线条曲张，块面奥图，各部位的大小比例，物体质感，物别是神态，相当完美的表现出来，是一件物别优秀的作品.

2. Details

• Title: Rhinoceros Zun     By   Qin Feng   (2006)
• Edition: Hand made
• Medium: Bronze
• Technique: Classical
• Dimensions: 27.0 x 11.0 x 15.5 cm= 10.6 x 4.3 x 6.1 inch
• US$ 428 : Buy It Now! 
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