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A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE BIRD-
872 FORM FINIAL
76 THE HARRIS COLLECTION: WARRING STATES PERIOD
(475-221 BC)
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART
The fnial is hollow-cast as a recumbent
bird, possibly a raptor, with head turned
backwards and beak open to form an
angular loop. The feathers are detailed in
silver sheet and silver wire inlay.
2æ in. (7 cm.) wide

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s New York, 25 March 1998, lot
60 (part).
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami,
Florida.

For two other small silver-inlaid bronze
bird-form fnials of this type and date see
Chugoku Sengoku Jidai No Bijutsu (The
Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka
Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1991,
p. 96, nos. 131 and 132.

戰國 銅錯銀鳳鳥形柲帽

872
TWO SILVER-INLAID BRONZE
FITTINGS
WARRING STATES PERIOD
(475-221 BC)

One is a hollow-cast ferrule decorated
on both sides of the tapering oval section
with a long-necked bird beside a dragon
head that projects from the front edge, its
body continuing into the upper section
which is cast in the shape of an animal
leg. The other is a hollow-cast chariot
ftting of lenticular section decorated
with birds above and below an encircling
raised band.
5 and 4¡ in. (12.6 and 11.2 cm.) high

(2)

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami,
Florida, by 1991.

戰國 銅錯銀戈墩兩件