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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION
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A RARE PAIR OF BRONZE `DRAGON' FITTINGS A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD VESSEL, JIA
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-10TH The vessel is raised on three tall tapering, triangular blade-form supports.
CENTURY BC The body is well cast in relief with two registers of taotie masks separated by
flanges as well as by the loop handle surmounted by a horned animal mask
Each fitting is decorated with a dragon and has a curved end opposite the
below the rectangular posts rising from the rim cast with bird-form caps.
other end perforated with a rectangular opening, the side with a loop for
There is an inscription cast on one post and the patina is of a mottled dark
attachment.
green tone.
18¿ in. (46 cm.) long (2)
27 in. (69.2 cm.) high
$3,000-5,000
$80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE:
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection. PROVENANCE:
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.
A similar dragon can be seen decorating a Western Zhou bronze protective 721 (details)
This jia is based on elaborately-cast Shang dynasty prototypes, such as
cover for a front wooden bar of a chariot, excavated at Zhouyuan, Qishan
the jia with bird-form posts in the Shanxi Provincial Museum, illustrated in
county, Shaanxi province, and now in the Zhouyuan Museum of Qishan
Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan: Qingtong juan (Compendium of Treasures
County. See Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History,
of Chinese Cultural Relics: Archaic Bronzes), Hong Kong, 1994, p. 53, no. 186.
Kentucky, 2000, p. 78, no. 9.

瓊肯珍藏 瓊肯珍藏
晚商/西周早期 公元前十二至十世紀 青銅龍紋飾一對 仿古青銅饕餮紋斝
來源:
來源:
34 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏 35
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏
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