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A RARE INSCRIBED GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE BIRD
FINIAL
Warring States period
Gracefully cast as a recumbent bird head turned back, the curved beak
resting on the body, inlaid in gold and silver with a geometric pattern that
articulates the animal’s plumage, all above a socket scattered with green
encrustation.
9cm (3 1/2in) high

£4,000 - 6,000 CNY37,000 - 55,000
HK$44,000 - 66,000

戰國 銅錯金銀瑞鳥頂飾

Provenance: Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (1929-2014), no. GB102A (part)
Sotheby’s New York, The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection: Chinese
Archaic & Gilt Bronzes, 19 March 2002, lot 97 (part lot)

來源： 安思遠先生(1929-2014)舊藏，藏品編號GB102A（其一）
2002年3月19日於紐約蘇富比「The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection:
Chinese Archaic & Gilt Bronzes(安思遠珍藏中國高古及鎏金銅器)」專場
拍賣，拍品97號(其一)

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