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216 A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE ‘FIGURAL’ PLAQUE
2ND CENTURY BC
公元前二世紀 青銅透空角士紋牌

of rectangular form, well cast in openwork with two long-haired men locked in combat, each with bare chests and wearing
loose trousers, flanked by two harnessed horses in profile and large trees all below a bird hovering above,
Length 5⅝ in., 14.2 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

Only a small group of plaques of this design appear to be published, including one from the Xiwenguo Zhai
Collection, exhibited in Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
1995, cat. no. 1, where it is noted that there are two matching plaques depicting the same scene excavated from a
Western Han tomb at Kexingzhuang near Xi’an, Shaanxi province; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, acc. no.
M. 160-1951; and another, formerly in the C.T. Loo Collection, illustrated in Alfred Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art The
Collection of C.T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XXI, fig. 2, shown together with an other plaque of the same design, but not in
openwork

此類牌甚罕，僅見數例記載，包括喜聞過齋收藏一例， 一例，現藏於倫敦維多利亞與阿爾伯特博物館，藏品編
曾展於《Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern 號M.160-1951；另見一例，出自盧芹齋收藏，圖載於
Frontier》，賽克勒美術館，華盛頓，1995年，編號1， Alfred Salmony，《Sino-Siberian Art The Collection
作者引述另有一對陝西西安客省莊漢墓出土作例；亦見 of C.T. Loo》，巴黎，1933年，圖版XXI，圖2，同書並
載另一例，紋飾相同，唯無透空，圖2。

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