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A RARE BRONZE CHARIOT-POLE FITTING
CHINA, MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH-9TH CENTURY B.C. This rare bronze chariot fitting features the head of a
The L-shaped, tubular finial terminating in a deer-like head with upright horns with deer-like hybrid animal that was popular on bronzes in
overlapping hooked projections and a loop below the chin, possibly to secure a bell the early Western Zhou dynasty, 11th-10th century BC.
A pair of bronze zun vessels in the form of freestanding
4Ω x 6¿ in. (11.4 x 15.7 cm.), metal stand
animal of this type was found in Shigushan, Baoji city,
$15,000-25,000 Shaanxi province, and is illustrated in Nobel Life of the
Zhou: Bronzes Unearthed from the Cemetery of the Western
PROVENANCE: Zhou Aristocrats at Shigushan of Baoji, Shanghai, 2014, pp.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 23 November 1982. 88-97, nos. 17 and 18. An early Western Zhou bronze
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago. gong vessel featuring the head of this type of animal in
the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Ancient Chinese
西周中期 公元前十至九世紀 青銅車軸飾 Bronzes in the Collection of the Shanghai Museum, Hong
Kong, 1983, no. 15.
來源:
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1982年11月23日。
詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮·阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥。

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