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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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A BRONZE HARNESS JINGLE 周代 青銅鑾鈴
ZHOU DYNASTY (8TH-5TH CENTURY BC)
來源:
The jingle is cast to the front as an oval open-form fower, with one aperture
to the centre on the back, all supported on a spreading rectangular foot. The 於1982年6月前購自日本古董商Shogado & Co.
bronze has a pale greyish-green patina with light malachite encrustation.
7¿ in. (18 cm.) high 重要歐洲私人珍藏
£2,000-4,000 $2,900-5,600
€2,300-4,600

PROVENANCE
With Shogado & Co., Japan, before June 1982.
From an important private European collection.

A very similar bronze horse jingle with openwork front, enclosed back and
raised vertical lines on the base is illustrated in The Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities, Bulletin no. 20, Stockholm 1948, pl. 44, no. 3.
A Western Zhou horse bell ftting can also be seen in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford, Yousef Jameel Collection for Asian and Islamic Art
(accession no. EA1956.844).

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