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A RARE BRONZE HORSE-HARNESS A RARE PAIR OF BRONZE HUMAN A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE ‘TAOTIE MASK’
FRONTLET MASKS HANDLES
Chu Kingdom Chu Kingdom Han Dynasty
Crisply cast with a mythical-beast head, with Each of the anthropomorphic fittings cast Each crisply cast with two short horns
bulging eyes and flaring nostrils beneath with large round bulging eyes below a strong flanking a pointed cranium, large bulbous
stylised, angular horns, a long tongue issuing brow and between stylised loop ears, all eyes and a loop from the mouth, the front
from the mouth, plastic stand. above a protruding round nose and grinning surface with extensive gilding remaining,
26.8cm (10 1/2in) long. (2). mouth, the dark patinated surface with stand. Each 4.5cm (1 3/4in) wide. (3).
patches of malachite encrustation, wood
£1,500 - 2,000 stand. 6.5cm (2 1/2in) wide. (3). £1,000 - 1,500
CNY14,000 - 18,000 CNY9,000 - 14,000
£1,500 - 2,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at CNY14,000 - 18,000 Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
楚 青銅獸面當盧 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 漢 銅鎏金饕餮鋪首一對

Provenance: an American private collection 楚 青銅面具一對 See a similar example illustrated in Ancient
Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection,
Published, Illustrated, and Exhibited: Provenance: Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Tokyo, 1989, no. 419; see also another
Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, (1929-2004), New York example illustrated in The Crucible of
London, 2003, no.5. Louise Hawley Stone, Toronto (1903-1997) Compassion and Wisdom: Special Exhibition
(label) Catalog of the Buddhist Bronzes from the
來源：美國私人舊藏 Nitta Group Collection at the National Palace
來源： 紐約安思遠（1929-2014）舊藏 Museum, Taipei, 1987, pl.191.
展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展 加拿大多倫多Louise Hawley
覽》，倫敦，2003年，編號5 Stone（1903-1997）舊藏（標籤）

Compare with a similar bronze horse-nose See a related example illustrated by D.Failla,
fitting, Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated by Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods:
J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese Transformations of Archaistic Bronzes in
and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, China and Japan, Genoa, 2017, p.42.
pp.166-167, no.67.
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