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THE PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG COLLECTOR
香港私人珍藏
2975

A RARE AND LARGE BRONZE HORSE 西周 青銅獸面飾
MASK FITTING 來源

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (C. 1100-771 BC.) 安思遠，1998 年，紐約
The unusually large mask is cast as a tiger with bulging eyes, broad 紐約蘇富比，《The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection, Chinese
nose and C-shaped ears. Archaic & Gilt Bronzes》，2002 年 3 月 19 日，拍品 102 號
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) wide.
展覽
HK$70,000-90,000 US$9,100-12,000 安思遠，亞洲藝術博覽會，紐約，1998 年，編號 B2010
PROVENANCE 拍品可與芝加哥藝術學院珍藏西周獸面面飾（編號 1930.364）相比較，
R. H. Ellsworth, New York, 1998 後者為白金漢女士舊藏，著錄於 Charles Fabens Kelley 及陳夢家著
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth 《Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection》芝加哥，1946 年，
Collection, Chinese Archaic & Gilt Bronzes, 19 March 2002, lot 102 頁 72-73，圖 XL。
EXHIBITED
R. H. Ellsworth, Asian Art Fair, New York, 1998, no. B2010
Compare the present mask to another animal-head bronze mask dated
to the early Western Zhou dynasty from the Lucy Maud Buckingham
Collection, now in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,
reference number 1930.364, illustrated by Charles Fabens Kelley and
Ch’en Meng-Chia in Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection,
Chicago, 1946, p. 72-73, pl. XL.

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