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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERWIN HARRIS
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A GROUP OF BRONZE FITTINGS
5TH-4TH CENTURY BC
The group includes a harness ornament cast at the bottom in openwork with the coiled body of a creature
with an eared raptor head, its body being bitten by the head of a crouching wolf with bent forelegs, its body
curving upwards to terminate in the head of another eared raptor. A squared vertical loop is on the back
of this section and a loop on the back of the bottom section. There are traces of tinning. The second is a
tinned bronze tubular chariot ftting, with one solid end and cast on top with a wolf with lowered head and
arched back. The third is a pair of bronze tubular fttings that terminate in an ibex head, with a hole through
the muzzle and a loop cast at the bottom of the tube.
3, 31 and 2Ω in. (7, 7.8 and 6.3 cm.) long, one ftted box
(4)
$2,000-4,000

PROVENANCE
Harness ornament: acquired in Paris, 1996.
Chariot ftting: Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd., Hong Kong, 1988.
Tubular fttings: Christie’s London, 5 July 1975, lot 154.
All: The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.
Compare the harness ornament to a related example in the Musée Guimet illustrated by E. C. Bunker et
al., “Animal Style” Art from East to West, The Asia Society, New York, 1970, p. 127, no. 106 (two views) and
p. 142, where it is ascribed to Inner Mongolia and dated 4th-3rd century BC.
公元前五至四世紀 青銅車器一組四件

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