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240 A GILT-BRONZE TIGER-FORM WEIGHT
HAN DYNASTY
漢 銅鎏金虎形鎮

the feline cast in a tightly coiled pose with its head supported on its paw resting on its rump, its neck adorned with a collar,
its face detailed with a broad snout below oval-shaped protruding eyes and large pointed ears, the details finely incised, all
supported on a circular disc base

Diameter 2⅜ in., 6 cm
$ 30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 20th December 1950. Nagatani, Inc.，芝加哥，1950年12月20日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Compare a closely related bronze weight illustrated in Sun Ji, ‘Han zhen yishu [The Art of Han Weights]’, Wenwu,
1983, no. 6, p. 70, fig. 1, no. 3, where the author discusses the different types of weights and their uses; another, from
the collection of Mrs. Nora Lundgren, included in the exhibition Mostra d’arte cinese [Exhibition of Chinese art],
Venice, 1954, cat. no. 97, and published in Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘Axel and Nora Lundgren’s Bequest of Chinese Bronzes,
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 49, Stockholm, 1977, pl. 14, fig. b.

See also a gilt-bronze weight of this type, but without the incised details, in the Idemitsu Collection, illustrated in
Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Osaka, 1989, cat. no. 236; and another formerly in the Sakamoto
Collection, illustrated in Hayashi Minao and Higuchi Takayasu, Fugendō Sakamoto Gorō Chūgoku seidōki seishō
[Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Sakamoto Collection], Tokyo, 2002, cat. no. 297. For examples without the disc base,
see a silver-inlaid bronze tiger-form weight illustrated in Chinesisches Gold und Silber. Die Sammling Pierre Uldry,
Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1994, cat. no. 86; and another exhibited in Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no. 115.

參考一相類例，圖載於孫機，〈漢鎮藝術〉，《文物》 比較一銅鎏金例，現藏於出光美術館，圖載於《中国の工
，1983年，期6，頁70，圖1，編號3；另見Nora Lundgren 芸：出光美術館蔵品図録》，東京，1989年，編號236
夫人收藏一例，曾展於《Mostra d’arte cinese》，威尼 ；另一例曾屬不言堂收藏，圖載於林巳奈夫及樋口隆康，
斯，1954年，編號97，另載於 Bo Gyllensvärd，〈Axel 《不言堂坂本五郎：中国青銅器清賞》，東京，2002
and Nora Lundgren’s Bequest of Chinese Bronzes〉， 年，編號297。另比數例，無底部圓托，其一為銅錯銀
《Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities》， 虎形鎮，圖載於《Chinesische Gold und Silber. Die
編號49，斯德哥爾摩，1977年，圖版14，圖b。 Sammling Pierre Uldry》，Rietberg Museum，蘇黎
世，1994年，編號86；另一例展於《青銅聚英：中國古
代與鄂爾多斯青銅器展覽》，香港藝術館，香港，1990
年，編號115。

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