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229 A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE LINCHPIN
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
西周 青銅犀首轄

naturalistically cast in the form of a rhinoceros head rendered with pricked ears, almond-shaped eyes, and two protruding
horns, pierced through with an aperture behind and set against a crescent-shaped back, all above a flattened pierced shaft,
the surface with malachite and cuprite encrustation, wood stand (2)

Height 4⅛ in., 10.5 cm
$ 15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Bronze linchpins made in the form of a rhinoceros head are very rare. See a pair of nearly identical linchpins in the
collection Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated together with their axle caps in Ancient Chinese Arts in the
Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 99, together with a few other examples of different animal forms, such as boar,
elephant, and tiger, pls 91-93; one in the British Museum, London, illustrated in William Watson, Handbook of the
Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities, London, 1962, pl. 36; and another, modeled with a single horn, published in
Orvar Karlbeck, ‘Notes on Some Chinese Wheel Axle-Caps’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 39,
Stockholm, 1967, pl. 16, fig. E.

青銅犀首轄極其罕見，比較一對例，與本品極近，連軎， 敦，1962年，圖版36；另一例，獨角造型，載於Orvar
現藏於東京出光美術館，載於《中国の工芸：出光美術 Karlbeck，〈 Notes on Some Chinese Wheel Axle-
館蔵品図録》，東京，1989年，圖版99，同書並載其他 Caps〉，《Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern
獸首作例，如野豬、象及虎等，圖版91-93；倫敦大英博 Antiquities》，編號39，斯德哥爾摩，1967年，圖版16
物館收藏一例，圖載於William Watson，《Handbook ，圖E。
of the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities》，倫

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