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A RARE SMALL INSCRIBED GOLD AND SILVER- 戰國 / 漢 銅錯金銀龜形鎮 A RARE GILT-BRONZE ‘LOVE BIRDS’ WEIGHT, 唐 銅鎏金愛情鳥鎮
INLAID BRONZE ‘TORTOISE’ WEIGHT, TANG DYNASTY
WARRING STATES PERIOD / HAN DYNASTY Height 3 in., 7.5 cm
來源： 來源：
the underside cast with an unidentified inscription 紐約佳士得2005年3月30日，編號236 戴克成，倫敦，1987年之前
Length 1¾ in., 4.3 cm PROVENANCE
Christian Deydier, Oriental Bronzes Ltd., London, by 1987.
PROVENANCE 展覽：
Christie’s New York, 30th March 2005, lot 236. EXHIBITED 《Opening Exhibition》，戴克成，倫敦，1987年，
Opening Exhibition, Christian Deydier, Oriental Bronzes Ltd., 編號11
Compare a very similar gold and silver-inlaid bronze weight London, 1987, cat. no. 11. 《XVIe Biennale des Antiquaires》，戴克成，巴
in the form of a tortoise, included in the exhibitions Glorious XVIe Biennale des Antiquaires, Christian Deydier, Oriental 黎，1992年，編號16
Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, From the Anthony and Susan Bronzes Ltd., Paris, 1992, cat. no. 16.
Hardy Collections and the Sze Yuan Tang, Singapore, 2000,
cat. no. 80 and Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong The present gilt-bronze sculpture captures the tender image
Kong Museum of Art, 2002, cat. no. 99, and later sold at of two birds nestled against each other, with interlocking
Christie’s New York, 16th September 2010, lot 907. claws and tail feathers. This intimate coupling belongs
to a small group of Tang dynasty gilt-bronzes, previously
⊖ $ 40,000-60,000 identified as sleeve weights. See one from the collection
of Lucy Maud Buckingham in the Art Institute of Chicago
(accession no. 1926.1828); one from the Eumorfopoulos
Collection, now in the British Museum, London, illustrated in
Osvald Sirén, The History of Early Chinese Art, London, 1929,
p. 116 (b and c) another from the collection of Mrs. Walter
Sedgwick, sold in our London rooms, 2nd July 1968, lot 30.
A further example was included in the exhibition, Ancient
Chinese Bronze Vessels and Early Ceramics, Eskenazi Ltd.,
London, 1973, cat. no. 20.
⊖ $ 40,000-60,000

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