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213 A RARE GILT-BRONZE FINIAL
HAN - SIX DYNASTIES
漢至六朝 銅鎏金鳳首形飾

cast in the form of a phoenix head, detailed with hooked beak forming a small loop, large protruding eyes and small ears
pinned back, all surmounted by a large crest, the hollow cylindrical socket slightly tapered with a lipped rim, wood stand (2)
Height 3¾ in., 8.5 cm

$ 6,000-8,000

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

Compare a related gilt-bronze finial, cast in the form of a dragon head, from Han to Six Dynasties period, from the Mr.
and Mrs. Richard C. Bull Collection, sold in these rooms, 6th December 1983, lot 55; and another from the collection
of Ch. Vignier, exhibited in Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 92; one without gilding, modeled with
a bird head, in the British Museum, London, published in Orvar Karlbeck, ‘Selected Objects from Ancient Shou-chou’,
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 27, Stockholm, 1955, pl. 42, fig. 5; and a larger bronze bird-head
finial, set with a small loop, from the Han dynasty, exhibited in op. cit., Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 66.

參考一銅鎏金龍首形飾例，斷代漢至六朝，Richard C. Bull Karlbeck，〈Selected Objects from Ancient Shou-
伉儷收藏，售於紐約蘇富比1983年12月6日，編號55； chou〉，《Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern
另一例出自Ch.Vignier收藏，曾展於《Ausstellung Antiquities》，編號27，斯德哥爾摩，1955年，圖版42
Chinesischer Kunst》，柏林，1929年，編號92；倫敦 ，圖5；另一鳥首例尺寸較大，帶一小環，斷代漢，前述
大英博物館亦收藏一例，無鎏金，鳥首造型，載於Orvar 出處，柏林，1929年，編號66。

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