[2007-06-25] 铜鸟(Bronze bird，c.1200 BC)

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三星堆博物馆藏 (Collection of Sanxingdui Museum)

　铜鸟双眼浑圆，头上顶着硕大冠羽，整体饰有鱼鳞纹和卷云纹，虽然腿及尾部残断无存，仍然无损其庄重典雅的美感。类似的鸟头装饰在二号坑出土的铜尊残片，以至在长江中游地区出土的铜器上都可以看到。国外藏的一件由湖南长沙出土的青铜器盖上存类似铜鸟装饰。而铜鸟是否器盖上的装饰，有待进一步考证。

　This bronze bird has round eyes, an ornate crest, and fish-scale and cloud scroll patterns on its entire body. In spite of the incomplete legs and tail, it exudes an air of dignified elegance. Similar crest decorations have been unearthed among zun remnants in Pit 2 and bronze vessels unearthed in as far as the mid-Yangtze basin. A similar bronze bird was used as decoration on a lid of a bronze vessel unearthed in Changsha, Hunan, now in an overseas collection. Whether this bronze bird was a decoration on a vessel's lid requires further investigation.

　■资料：香港文化博物馆