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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE ‘TIGER’ FITTING
SHANG DYNASTY
of hollow rectangular form open at the back end, the front
and top of the fitting in the form of a tiger’s head with
protruding ears, bulging eyes, and large fangs, the long sides
cast in high relief with the creature’s profile, a rectangular
aperture behind the head and an oval one on the base, wood
and metal stand (3)
Length 3⅝ in., 9.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 6th December 1983, lot 32.
New York Private Collection.
Christie’s New York, 25th March 1998, lot 46.

24 EXHIBITED
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
1959.
$ 8,000-12,000

商 青銅虎紋部件
來源：
Richard C. Bull 伉儷收藏
蘇富比 Parke Bernet，紐約，1983年12月6日，編號32
紐約私人收藏
紐約佳士得1998年3月25日，編號46
展覽：
賓夕法尼亞大學博物館，費城，1959年

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AN ARCHAIC SILVER-INLAID BRONZE
FERRULE
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES
PERIOD
hollow with a teardrop-shaped socket at one end enclosed 26
by smooth conforming sides inlaid with silver curvilinear
designs, each side pierced with a small circular aperture for AN ARCHAIC BRONZE AND JADE SPEARHEAD 商 青銅骹玉矛
inserting a pin to secure a pole or weapon, ringed by a raised SHANG DYNASTY
rope-twist border followed by a hexagonal-section shaft with 來源：
a waisted neck and slightly domed terminus, all similarly the hollow conical bronze fitting narrowing to a terminus in Rena G. Segal 收藏
inlaid with scrolling motifs in silver, section of a wood post the form of a snake head, the eyes framed by spiral details, 紐約佳士得1995年9月21日，編號573
(2) the body indicated by scaly sinuous lengths, leiwen filling
Length 4½ in., 11.4 cm the negative space, the mouth of the snake securing a green 出版：
and gray jade blade with beveled sides and a pointed tip, the 林巳奈夫，《殷周時代青銅器の研究：殷周青銅器綜
PROVENANCE bronze with malachite, azurite, and cuprite encrustations, 覽》，卷2，東京，1986年，頁112，圖3-179
metal stand (2)
Sotheby’s London, 26th July 1966, lot 1.
Collection of Peter Hariolf Plesch (1918-2013). Length 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm
Christie’s London, 5th November 2009, lot 193. PROVENANCE
$ 6,000-8,000 Collection of Rena G. Segal.
Christie’s New York, 21st September 1995, lot 573.
東周 戰國 銅錯銀卷雲紋鐏 LITERATURE
Minao Hayashi, Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu /
來源： Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration: A Conspectus
倫敦蘇富比1966年7月26日，編號1 of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels, vol. II, Tokyo, 1986, p. 112,
25 Peter Hariolf Plesch (1918-2013) 收藏 fig. 3-179.
倫敦佳士得2009年11月5日，編號193
$ 15,000-20,000

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