A type of design used on bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China. It is a fictional animal with a dragon body, one leg, horns and hands. If its mouth curves up and down, it is called a Kuilong, and if its upper lip curves down to form a beak, it is called a Kuiphoon. The Kuilong design is a side-view animal design, and is often used together with a thunder design. In designs from the Shang to the early Western Zhou period, a pair of Kuilongs are intertwined, but from the mid-Western Zhou period onwards, they are expressed as single or continuous designs, and the Kuilong is sometimes long-bodied and inverted backwards, sometimes closer to a snake, and sometimes with both heads in an S-shape. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
中国,殷・周代の青銅器に用いられた文様の一種。竜身で足が1本,角と手がついている架空の動物で,口が上下にそりかえっているものを 夔竜,上唇が下に曲って嘴状になっているものを 夔鳳という。 夔竜文は側面獣形の文様で,多くは雷文とともに用いられる。殷から西周前期の文様では1対の 夔竜がからみ合う形であるが,西周中期以降では単独,または連続の文様として表現され,夔竜は胴長となり後方に反転したもの,蛇身に近くなったもの,両頭がS字形になったものがある。
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