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222 A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF A STAG
4TH - 3RD CENTURY BC
公元前四至三世紀 青銅鹿

naturalistically cast with its legs tucked beneath its body, the head facing forward, detailed with rounded eyes and pricked
ears below long forked antlers extending back toward its short tail, all supported on a fragmentary base, the surface with
malachite encrustation

Height 2⅞ in., 7.3 cm
$ 10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Alice Boney, New York, 29th February 1960. 愛麗絲•龐耐，紐約，1960年2月29日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Distinctively modeled in an expressive style suggesting its Northern origin, bronze stags of this type originally served
as ornaments on the lids of bronze drums or storage vessels. See a bronze lid fragment adorned with four very
similar stags on the top, included in the exhibition “Animal Style” Art from East to West, Asia House Gallery, New
York, 1970, cat. no. 96. Compare also a closely related bronze stag offered in these rooms, 28th May 1991, lot 112. In
addition, see a similar bronze stag of a larger size, in the Inner Mongolia Museum, Hohhot, published in Zhongguo
meishu quanji qingtongqi [Complete collection of Chinese arts. Archaic bronzes], vol. 2, Beijing, 1986, pl. 165; and
another related example, modeled standing, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, published in Edmund
Capon, Art and Archaeology in China, Melbourne, 1977, pl. 45.

本品青銅鹿，造型生動，風格豪放，可知其源自北方， 院收藏一例，尺寸稍大，載於《中國美術全集：青銅器》
此類銅器相信乃用於裝飾青銅鼓蓋或青銅容器蓋之用。 ，卷2，北京，1986年，圖版165，倫敦維多利亞和阿爾
比較一銅蓋殘件例，蓋上飾四鹿，與本品極似，曾展於 伯特博物館亦藏一立鹿例，載於Edmund Capon，《Art
《“Animal Style” Art from East to West》，華美協 and Archaeology in China》，墨爾本，1977年，圖版
進社，紐約，1970年，編號96。另比一例，售於紐約蘇 45。
富比1991年5月28日，編號112。呼和浩特市內蒙古博物

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