Ritual and Reality III | 天人之際 III

Ritual and Reality III assembles an important group of bronzes drawn from three distinguished collections: the Hsiao-Ya Chai Collection, the T. T. Tsui Collection and the Louis Y. C. Fung Collection of the Min Chiu Society. Spanning three thousand years of Chinese bronze casting, the group ranges from the ritual vessels of the early dynasties to later works in which the sacred and the worldly meet. At its centre stands a gold and silver-inlaid gilt-bronze lamp of the Warring States period, cast in the form of a warrior. In it the achievement of the early Chinese bronze-caster is fully apparent: several materials and a number of exacting techniques are brought together, yet resolve into a single, assured design.

「天人之際」第三部分，精選敏求精舍會員馮元志先生、徐展堂先生及小雅齋之吉金秘藏。展覽勾勒出中國三千年青銅藝術之流變，於青銅的斑駁中貫穿神性與人性，虛實相生。其中一件戰國銀首錯金銀銅鎏金貴族擎燈堪稱絕品，其不僅凝聚了古代匠人對多類金屬的卓越鎔鑄智慧，更將殊異材質與極致技法完美合於一尊，技藝之絕，令人歎為觀止。