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A VERY RARE GOLD AND GLASS-INLAID 東周晚期ǎՌ元עो至˕ˠ紀ǎ
BRONZE TIGER-HEAD-FORM FITTING 銅ณ金及玻璃虎首車飾
LATE EASTERN ZHOU PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
Ϝ源
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The fitting is powerfully cast in the form of a tiger head with jaws open in a roar
秦峰⁸珍藏
神戶
日本
below the eyes inset with turquoise-colored glass. The neck is pierced on either
side for attachment.
展覽
2 in. (5.1 cm.) long, metal stand, Japanese wood box ૯阪
૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǚ中य़戰य़時代̯美術ǚ
年
月 日
$30,000-50,000
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૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǘ中य़戰य़時代̯美術ǘ
૯阪
年
PROVENANCE: 頁
編號
In Japan prior to 1991.
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.
EXHIBITED:
Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, Chugoku sengoku jidai no bijutsu
(The Art of the Warring States Period), 8-20 October 1991.
LITERATURE:
Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, Chugoku sengoku jidai no bijutsu (The Art of
the Warring States Period), Osaka, 1991, p. 127, no. 213.

This fitting exhibits the outstanding quality of inlaid fittings from this period.
A nearly identical gold-inlaid bronze fitting, but lacking inlaid eyes, is illustrated
in the Eskenazi exhibition catalogue, Inlaid Bronze and Related Material from
Pre-Tang China, London, 1991, pp. 66-7, no. 21. Another similar example, but
shown with jaws closed, was excavated from Linzi district, Zibo city, Shandong
province, illustrated in “Xi Han Qi Wang Mu Suizang Qiwu Keng” (The Funerary
Pits Round the Princely Tombs of Qi Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty),
Kaogu Xuebao, 1985, vol. 2, p. 249, fig. 3. A related silver-inlaid bronze tiger
head-form fitting, dated to the late Eastern Zhou period, 3rd century BC, is
illustrated by J. Fontein and Tung Wu in Unearthing China's Past, Boston, 1973,
p. 56, no. 16. (another view)

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