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201 A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE ‘BEAST HEAD’ CHARIOT ORNAMENT
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
戰國至漢 銅錯銀獸首車飾

well modeled in the form of feline head with fine lines of silver inlay defining the details, the broad snout with a wide open
mouth leading to a hollow interior and open at the back, the pair of almond-shaped eyes surmounted by bushy brows and
large rounded ears, the surface with minor areas of malachite encrustation

Length 2⅛ in., 5.4 cm
$ 5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE 來源
C.T. Loo, New York, 19th April 1951. 盧芹齋，紐約，1951年4月19日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Bronze beast head-form fittings of this type were used as chariot ornaments, as evidenced by two similar parcel-
gilt bronze examples discovered inside the carriage remnants of a chariot from the tomb of the Prince of Qi of the
Western Han dynasty in Linzi, Shandong province, published in Zibo Museum, ‘Xihan Qiwangmu suizangqiwukeng
[The Funerary Pits round the Princely Tomb of Qi Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty]’, Kaogu xuebao/Acta
Archaeologica Sinica, vol. 2, Beijing, 1985, fig. 23-3. For other ornaments of the same type, see a silver-inlaid bronze
example, modeled in the form of a similar feline head, from the Eastern Zhou period, 4th-3rd century B.C., exhibited
in Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no. 104; another inscribed
to the underside with two characters reading zuozheng, in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, included in
the exhibition Unearthing China’s Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973, cat. no. 16; a third exhibited in Chinese
Archaic Bronzes, Sculpture and Works of Art, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1992, cat. no. 31; and an undecorated
example, attributed to the Han dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 18.43.1.

此類銅獸首部件為馬車飾，參考兩銅局部鎏金例，出土 年，編號104；另一例底部刻「左徵」銘，現藏於科隆東
於山東臨淄西漢齊王墓坑車輿之內，載於淄博博物館， 亞藝術博物館，曾展於《Unearthing China’s Past》，
〈西漢齊王墓隨葬器物坑〉，《考古學報》，期2，北 波士頓美術館，1973年，編號16；例三曾展於《Chinese
京，1985年，圖23-3。此外可比數例，其一為銅錯銀獸 Archaic Bronzes, Sculpture and Works of Art》，J.J.
首飾，斷代東周公元前三至四世紀，曾展於《青銅聚英： Lally & Co.，紐約，1992年，編號31；再比一例，無紋
中國古代與鄂爾多斯青銅器》，香港藝術館，香港，1990 飾，斷代漢，現藏於紐約大都會藝術博物館，館藏編號
18.43.1。

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