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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION | 瓊肯珍藏重要中國藝術

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AN UNUSUAL SMALL SILVER FINIAL 戰國 銀鳥型飾
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
來源:
The hollow finial is cast in the shape of a recumbent bird with backward- 史蒂芬 • 瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏。
turned head, backswept wings and a long tail, a V-shaped notch is in the
bottom rim. There is some malachite encrustation.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) long

$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.

For other small bird-form finials of this type and date, but cast in bronze
with silver inlay, see Chugoku Sengoku Jidai No Bijutsu (The Art of the
Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1991,
p. 96, nos. 131 and 132, and the example sold at Christie’s New York,
The Harris Collection: Important Early Chinese Art, 16 March 2017,
lot 871.

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