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A BRONZE VESSEL HANDLE
285 Warring States
114 | BONHAMS The oval finial decorated with scrollwork
motifs, terminating in confronting, stippled
mythical beast heads, each cast with a
circular loop, bearing two pairs of linked twin
loops, with further scrolling motifs.
8.5cm (3.3/8in) wide at the handle; 16cm
(6.1/4in) long.

£2,000 - 4,000
CNY18,000 - 37,000
HK$22,000 - 44,000

Provenance
Rutherston Collection
Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd. 5 October,
1977.

Exhibited
Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 1924.
Bluett & Sons Ltd., Rutherston Collection
1948, No. 90
Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, Early
Chinese Bronzes, 1951. no. 98

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AN UNUSUAL BRONZE BOAR’S HEAD
LINCHPIN TERMINAL
Western Zhou
Naturalistically modelled with a slender muzzle
and flattened snout, the jaws slightly apart to
reveal the tips of the tusks, the ears swept
back towards the flattened backing, above a
circular aperture running across the head, the
underside with a rectangular pierced flange,
the surface with verdigris encrustation.
6cm (2.3/8in) long.

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 28,000
HK$22,000 - 33,000

Provenance
Sotheby’s London, 19 June 1984, Lot 28.
Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd. 25 June 1984.
Collection inventory number a 27 (label) to the
reverse and also numbered to the underside.

Exhibited
Ostasiatische Kunst Ausstellung, Koln, 1953.

For a linchpin with similar boar’s head
terminal, see The British Museum, Seligman
Bequest, OA 1932.3-16.8.