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A BRONZE POLE FINIAL The Cunliffe Collection
Shang Dynasty Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd. 25 March 1985.
Cast in the form of a twin-horned mythical beast, with short protruding
ears, each side cast with an animal mask, set on a tapering cylindrical Exhibited
stem, the horns and stem with scrollwork designs in low relief, fabric ‘Early Chinese Art from the Cunliffe Collection’, Bluett & Sons, 1973,
remnants adhered to the surface, the bronze of reddish brown no. 8.
patination, verdigris encrustation.
10cm (4in) long. For a comparable finial, dated to the Shang Dynasty, see ‘Bronze
Articles for Daily Use’, ‘The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
£2,000 - 3,000 Palace Museum’, no. 6, p.8. Another, in The Frederick M. Mayer
CNY18,000 - 28,000 Collection of Chinese Art, Christie’s, London, 25 June 1974, no. 221.
HK$22,000 - 33,000 Another in The British Museum, Seligman Bequest, OA 1973.7-26.16.
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