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232 A RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FITTING
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
戰國至漢 銅錯金銀部件

well cast of U-shaped section with a canted top and opening at the back, finely inlaid around the exterior with a geometric
pattern, pierced on the top and base with two circular apertures
Length 2 in., 5 cm

$ 10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Howard Hollis & Company, Cleveland, 22nd April 1954. Howard Hollis & Company，克利夫蘭，1954年4月22日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Although the exact function of the present lot remains unknown, it can be compared to the end cap of crossbows
from the Eastern Zhou to Han dynasty, such as one excavated from a Warring States tomb in Luoyang, Henan
province, fixed to the end section of the wood shaft remnants of a crossbow, published in Luoyang Museum,
‘The Chariot Pit Found at Chung-chou-lu’, Kaogu (Archeology), no. 3, 1974, pl. 3, fig. 1, (see p. 177, fig. 7 for the
reconstructed diagram of a crossbow); one from the Warring States period, reported to have come from Jincun,
Luoyang province, modeled in a similar form with an opening to one side for attachment, illustrated in William
Charles White, Tombs of Old Lo-Yang, Shanghai, 1934, pl. IX, fig. 16; and another from the C. Vignier Collection,
attributed to the Han dynasty, published in Umehara Sueji, Shina-Kodo Seikwa / Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese
Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America, pt. III: Miscellaneous Objects, vol. I, Osaka, 1933, pls. 59a and c.

Another possibility is that the present lot may also be an architectural fitting. See two rectangular socket fittings of
similar size, each attaching to a longer fitting, discovered in the tomb of a king from the Zhongshan State during the
Warring States period in Pingshan county, Hebei province, included in the exhibition The Cultural Relics and Art of
the Ancient Zhongshan Kingdom, Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan, p. 51; and a smaller socket fitting of rectangular form,
attributed to the Han dynasty, illustrated in Pierre Uldry, Chinesische Gold und Silber, Zurich, 1994, pl. 90.

本品用途未明，可比較東周至漢代弩臂末飾，參考一河南 本品亦有可能為建築部件，參考兩件尺寸相近之方形
洛陽戰國古墓出土類例，應置於弩木臂殘件末端，載於洛 部件，河北平山戰國中山國王陵出土，展於《中山風
陽博物館，〈洛陽中州路戰國車馬坑〉，《考古》，期3 雲•古中山國文物藝術》，山西博物院，太原，頁51；
，1974年，頁174，圖版3，圖1，亦見頁177，圖7之弓 另比一尺寸略小方形部件，斷代漢，圖見 Pierre Uldry，
弩重組模擬圖；一件戰國類例，據載出自洛陽金村，器 《Chinesische Gold und Silber》，蘇黎世，1994年，
形相近，單邊有開口以便安裝，圖見懷履光，《洛陽故城 圖版90。
古墓考》，上海，1934年，圖版IX，圖16；再有一件C.
Vignier收藏，斷代漢，載於梅原末治，《歐米蒐儲支那古
銅精華•雜器部》，冊一，大阪，1933年，圖版59a及c。

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