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245 A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE FINIAL
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
戰國至漢 青銅鳥形杖首

cast in the form of a bird head, with a large hooked beak before protruding eyes and leaf-shaped ears, the head flanked
by a pair of small loops and extending to a tall cylindrical hollow socket pierced with two small apertures, the surface with
malachite encrustation, wood stand (2)

Height 3½ in., 9.2 cm
$ 8,000-12,000

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

Bronze finials of this type have been discovered at several locations in the far northwest regions in China, as
discussed by Jenny F. So and Emma C. Bunker in the exhibition catalogue Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern
Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1995, p. 121, where a similar bronze bird head-form finial,
attributed to 5th-4th century B.C., from the Therese and Erwin Harris Collection, was exhibited, cat. no. 38. Compare
also a related bronze bird-head form finial of a smaller size, in the collection of the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf
Adolf, illustrated in Nils Palmgren, ed., Selected Chinese Antiquities from the collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of
Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pl. 24, fig. 2; another, modeled in the form of a ram head, from the Warring States period,
excavated in Guyuan city, Ningxia province, illustrated in The Guyuan Museum of Ningxia, ed., Historical and Cultural
Relics from Guyuan, Beijing, 2004, pl. 33; a Han dynasty example in the form of a doe head, from the collection of
Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, exhibited in Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst [Exhibition of Chinese Art], Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 127;
and also a gold finial, cast in the form of a feline head, attributed to the Warring States period, from the Carl Kempe
Collection, sold in our London rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 13.

此類青銅杖首多出於中國西北部地區，相關討論見於 Antiquities from the collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown
Jenny F. So及Emma C. Bunker於展覽圖錄《Traders Prince of Sweden》，斯德哥爾摩，1948年，圖版24，
and Raiders on China’s Northern Frontier》，亞 圖2；再比一羊首例，斷代戰國，寧夏固原市出土，圖載
瑟•M•賽克勒美術館，華盛頓，1995年，頁121，圖錄 於寧夏固原博物館編，《固原歷史文物》，北京，2004
中載一相類青銅鳥形杖首例，斷代公元前四至五世紀，出 年，圖版33；尚有一例，呈鹿首形，斷代漢，出自Bliss伉
自Therese及Erwin Harris伉儷收藏，編號38。另比一青 儷收藏，曾展於《Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst》，
銅鳥形杖首例，尺寸較小，現存於瑞典王儲古斯塔夫•阿 柏林，1929年，編號127。倫敦蘇富比亦曾售一金獸首形
道夫收藏，載於Nils Palmgren編，《Selected Chinese 杖首例，斷代戰國，出自Carl Kempe 收藏，售於2008年
5月14日，編號13。

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