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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHN W. WILKINS
COLLECTION
A BRONZE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’ POLE FINIAL
A REPOUSSÉ SILVER ‘LOTUS’ BOX AND COVER
FIVE DYNASTIES / NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY SHANG DYNASTY
well cast as a hollow conical socket issuing from a ferocious
of compressed cushion form, the shallow domed cover bovine mask with bulging eyes and a broad flattened nose,
decorated with continuous lotus blossoms and foliate scrolls flanked by flaring ears, all below tall curved horns cast with
against a punched ground, the straight sides with bands of intaglio coil details, the conical socket with further intaglio
classic scroll (2) motifs and pierced with two apertures, the bronze with a
Diameter 2¼ in., 5.7 cm
reddish-brown patina with malachite encrustation, stand (2)
Height 4½ in., 11.43 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 13th November 2001, lot 79. PROVENANCE
Hartman Rare Art, New York, 6th January 1994.
$ 30,000-50,000
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco, 10th October 1994.
五代 / 北宋 銀鏨纏枝花卉紋蓋盒 $ 4,000-6,000

來源：
倫敦佳士得2001年11月13日，編號79 商 青銅獸面杖首
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Hartman Rare Art，紐約，1994年1月6日
S. Bernstein & Co.，舊金山，1994年10月10日

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHN W. WILKINS A TURQUOISE-INLAID GILT-BRONZE ‘BEAR’
A BRONZE GARLIC-HEAD FLASK (BIANHU) FITTING
HAN DYNASTY HAN DYNASTY
cast hollow with a D-shaped aperture in the top of the head
of flattened oblong form set over a slightly splayed
rectangular foot rising to a short waisted neck and garlic and a circular opening at the base, the animal seated with
bulb-shaped mouth, the broad sides each with raised and both front paws raised to the side of its head, the rotund
stepped concentric ovals, the narrow sides plain, the surface body finely incised with fur and inlaid with small turquoise
with grey patina and malachite encrustation beads contrasting handsomely with the gilt
Width 13½ in., 34.3 cm Height 1⅞ in., 4.8 cm
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, July 1997. Collection of Dr. Carl Kempe (1884-1967).
Collection of Jacob and Mary Stein. Sotheby’s London, 5th November 2008, lot 409.
Christie’s New York, 20th March 2014, lot 2319.
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco, 2nd October 2014. ⊖ $ 8,000-12,000
$ 5,000-7,000 漢 銅鎏金嵌綠松石熊形承足
來源：
漢 青銅蒜頭扁壺
卡爾•坎普博士（1884-1967）收藏
來源： 倫敦蘇富比2008年11月5日，編號409
藍理捷，紐約，1997年7月
Jacob 及 Mary Stein 伉儷收藏 43
紐約佳士得2014年3月20日，編號2319
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S.Bernstein & Co.，舊金山，2014年10月2日

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