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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERWIN HARRIS
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A RARE BRONZE THREE-PART HORSE BIT LITERATURE
NORTH CHINA, 1ST-2ND CENTURY AD Horse bit: J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes,
Oriental Ceramic Society, Hong Kong, 1990, no. 233.
The assemblage consists of two delicate cheek-pieces of S-shape
J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern Frontier,
executed in elegant scrolled openwork with hooked, trefoil motifs on the
Washington D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1995, pp. 158-59, no. 81.
outer edges, the two joined by the three-part linked bit. Together with
four bronze ‘wolf’ plaques, South Central Inner Mongolia, 5th century BC,
The horse bit is identical to a set of four bits of 2nd century BC date recovered
each depicts a wolf devouring prey, two shown standing and two shown
in Huayin Xian, Shaanxi province. Other similar examples have been published:
crouching, and all with encrustation.
one from the Oppenheim Collection illustrated in the exhibition catalogue
5¿ in. (13 cm.) long (5) Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, p. 175, no. 428; one illustrated by
W. Perceval Yetts, The Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. II, London, 1930, pl. LII
$4,000-6,000 B203; and another illustrated in Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern
Art, Yamanaka & Company, Inc., New York, 1943, no. 126.
公元一至二世紀 青銅卷雲紋馬勒
PROVENANCE
Horse bit: Dr. Ping Yiu Tam Collection, Hong Kong.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1993.
Standing wolf plaques: The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.
Crouching wolf plaques: Edgar and Hedwig Worch Collection;
Christie’s New York, 2 June 1994, lot 44 (part).
All: The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.

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