青銅筆記 vol.42 藍理捷：戰國銅馬 - J.J.Lally, A Bronze Figure Of A Stallion, Warring States Period

戰國時期青銅馬，藍理捷（J.J. Lally）於2003年3月24日-4月12日在紐約展出。

戰國青銅馬像

戰國時期（公元前4至3世紀）

此馬造型簡練而寫實，表面銅鏽色彩鮮豔奪目。馬呈立姿，昂首挺立，正面直視，雙目炯炯有神，表情警覺。馬嘴上方幾近平坦，鼻孔顯著外張；短鬃呈刷狀脊棱，從兩耳之間厚實的楔形冠部向後逐漸收窄；寬闊的背部與脅腹輪廓圓潤流暢，四肢纖細修長，每肢皆有清晰的球節，蹄部圓潤飽滿。尾巴末端紮成結狀，馬的性別特徵清晰可見。

全器為實心青銅鑄造，表面覆蓋孔雀石綠、赤銅紅與天青藍等多彩銅鏽，斑斕明亮。臀部與腹下尚存大量細密織物的絲綢殘跡，胸前肌肉部位亦可見織物繫帶痕跡，以及一件已腐蝕的青銅與鐵質圓形飾件。

高 4 3⁄4 英寸（12.1 厘米）

長 5 1⁄4 英寸（13.4 厘米）

比較資料

可比較堪薩斯城納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館（Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art）收藏的兩件戰國時期青銅馬，見《The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection》，紐約，1993年，頁281。

北京故宮博物院收藏的一件較大型戰國青銅馬，見《中國美術全集·雕塑編1·新石器時代至戰國》，北京，1988年，頁126，圖156，及頁49的描述。

另可參考1978年山東平陰縣戰國墓出土的風格更為程式化的青銅馬像，現藏山東平陰縣博物館，收錄於《中國青銅器全集》第9卷《東周（三）》，北京，1997年，圖47（頁50），描述見頁16。

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A STALLION

Warring States period, 4th/3rd Century B.C.

well modelled in a simplified realistic style and with a brilliantly colored surface patina, shown standing with head high, facing front with an alert expression in the large eyes, the muzzle nearly flat on top and with prominent flared nostrils, the cropped mane shown as a bristled ridge tapering down from a thick wedge-shaped crown between the pricked-up ears, the broad back and flanks smoothly contoured and the slender legs each ending in a well-defined fetlock above a rounded hoof, the tail bound into a knot at the end and the sex of the horse clearly indicated, the solid bronze with malachite green, cuprite red and lapis blue surface corrosion brightly mottled all over, and with extensive remains of finely woven silk on the rump and under the belly, the muscular chest with remains of fabric straps and a corroded bronze and iron medallion.

Height 4 3⁄4 inches (12.1 cm)Length 5 1⁄4 inches (13.4 cm)

Compare the two Warring States period bronze horses in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, illustrated in The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 281.

Another Warring States period bronze horse of larger size, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Diaosubian (Compendium of Chinese Works of Art, Sculpture), Vol. 1, Neolithic to Warring States, Beijing, 1988, p. 126, no. 156 with description on p. 49.

Compare also the more stylized bronze figure of a horse which was excavated in 1978 from a Warring States tomb at Pingyin county, Shandong province and now is in the Shandong Pingyin County Museum, published in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji (Compendium of Chinese Bronzes), Vol. 9, Eastern Zhou, section 3, Beijing 1997, no. 47, illustrated on p. 50, with description on p. 16.