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PROPERTY FROM THE ERWIN HARRIS ESTATE
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A RARE SMALL BRONZE BIRD-SHAPED FITTING
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC
The hollow-cast bird is shown facing forward with head raised, a pattern of small feathers is cast on the
chest and stylized feathers are cast in intaglio on the canted wings and spread tail which is of triangular
shape. A small attachment loop projects from the underside of each wing and the tail. The bronze has a
satiny, blackish patina.
2 in. (5 cm.) long
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.
A related bronze bird-shaped ftting, dated early Western Zhou, 10th century BC, is illustrated by
J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 176-77, no. 79.
東周 青銅鳥形飾
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