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A BRONZE IBEX ORNAMENT
820 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC
30 THE HARRIS COLLECTION: The ornament is heavily cast as a
recumbent ibex with backward-turned
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART head, and a horizontal attachment loop
is on the reverse. There is extensive
malachite encrustation.
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high

$1,500-2,500

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s London, 10-11 December 1992,
lot 318.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami,
Florida.

LITERATURE

E. C. Bunker, et al., “Animal Style” Art from
East to West, The Asia Society, New York,
1970, p. 66, no. 39.

公元前五至四世紀 青銅羚羊形飾牌

820
A BRONZE RAM-FORM YOKE
ORNAMENT
CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC
The ftting is hollow cast either as a ram
or an ibex shown standing atop two
pierced fanges.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s New York, 29 November 1989,
lot 280.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami,
Florida.

A similar ornament is illustrated by E.C.
Bunker et al., Ancient Bronzes of the
Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur
M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1997,
p. 233, no. 185, where it is ascribed to
Northwestern China or Southwestern
Inner Mongolia. Also illustrated, p. 233,
fg. 185, is a similar ornament in the
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Stockholm, which retains a rattle on one
of the fanges which was attached after
casting.

約公元前五至四世紀 青銅盤羊飾件