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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERWIN HARRIS
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TWO UNUSUAL BRONZE
‘CAMEL’ FITTINGS
NORTHWEST CHINA,
4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
One of tinned bronze is possibly a harness
ornament and hollow-cast as a fgure of a seated
Bactrian camel shown with its legs folded
under the body on top of four struts rising from
a rectangular frame. The other is a harness
ornament cast as the head of a camel, with a
square cage-like strap-crossing device projecting
from the concave reverse.
2Ω and 2¬ in. (6.3 and 6.7 cm.) wide, one box
(2)
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE
Camel-form ftting: The Erwin Harris Collection,
Miami, Florida, by 1995.
Camel’s-head harness ornament:
acquired in Hong Kong, 1991.
Both: The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.
The camel’s head harness ornament is similar to
a tinned example illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al.,
Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002, p.
50, no. 14, which is ascribed to Northwest China
and dated 4th-3rd century BC.
公元前四至三世紀 青銅駱駝飾兩件
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THREE GILT-BRONZE FITTINGS
HAN-NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY
(206 BC-AD 534)
The group includes a small feline mask cast in
high relief within a U-shaped outer border with a
rectangular tab at the top, the reverse is concave;
a support hollow-cast in the shape of a bovine leg;
and a mask cast in openwork with bulging eyes,
long, upright ears and a pair of curved horns that
fank a squatting fgure, a hook curves backwards
below the nose.
1¬, 2æ, and 2 in. (4, 7 and 5 cm.) high, one box
(3)
$2,500-3,500

PROVENANCE
Feline mask: The Erwin Harris Collection,
Miami, Florida, by 1995.
Gilt-bronze leg: Edgar and Hedwig Worch
Collection; Christie’s New York, 2 June 1994,
lot 57 (part).
Openwork mask: The Erwin Harris Collection,
Miami, Florida, by 1982.
All: The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.
漢/北魏 銅鎏金飾三件

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