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242 A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE AXLE CAP AND LINCHPIN
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
西周初 青銅軎連獸首轄一套

the cap of tapering tubular section cast with a band of slender upright petals and pierced with a rectangular aperture
to receive the linchpin, the pin cast with a flattened pierced shaft, surmounted by a feline beast head with pricked ears,
a flattened nose and a broad muzzle open to reveal its teeth, pierced through with an aperture behind and set against a
semicircle-shaped back, the surface with malachite encrustation, wood stand (3)
Length 5½ in., 14.1 cm

$ 10,000-15,000

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

See a pair of closely related axle caps, similarly cast around the exterior with the slender upright petals, together with
their linchpins modeled with boar heads, discovered from a Western Zhou dynasty chariot pit in Jiaoxian, Shandong
province, illustrated in CPAM, Changwei District, Shandong Province, ‘Report on the Trial Excavation of the Site of
Hsian in Chiaohsien, Shantung Province’, Wenwu (Cultural Relics), no. 4, Beijing, 1977, p. 71, fig. 15.

Compare also a very similar axle cap and linchpin set, from the collection of J.W. Alsdorf, included in the exhibition
Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Stanford University Museum, Stanford, 1958, cat. no. 49; and two others sold in our
London rooms, one on 29th February 1972, lot 107, and the other on 15th July 1980, lot 184; as well as an axle cap of
the same type, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, published in Orvar Karlbeck, ‘Notes on Some
Chinese Wheel Axle-Caps’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 39, Stockholm, 1967, pl. 2, fig. A6,
together with a very similar linchpin illustrated on pl. 16, fig. C.

參考一對青銅軎連轄，軎式相同，轄作豬首，山東膠縣西 福，1958年，編號49；再比兩例，售於倫敦蘇富比，
周車馬坑出土，載於山東省昌濰地區文物管理組，〈膠縣 其一售於1972年2月29日，編號107，其二售於1980
西蓭遺址調查試掘簡報〉，《文物》，期4，北京，1977 年7月15日，編號184；尚有一軎例，現藏於東方博物
年，頁71，圖15。 館，斯德哥爾摩，載於Orvar Karlbeck，〈Notes on
Some Chinese Wheel Axle-Caps〉，《Bulletin of the
比較一軎連轄例，出自J.W. Alsdorf 收藏，曾展於《Arts
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities》，編號39年，斯
of the Chou Dynasty》，史丹福大學博物館，史丹
德哥爾摩，1967年，圖版2，圖A6，同書並載一轄例，圖
版16, fig. C。

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