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324 | Bonhams A pair of archaic gilt-bronze chariot fittings
Eastern Zhou dynasty
Each of curved crescent-shape ending in a angled tip, issuing from a
hollowed rectangular fixture.
5.2cm long. (2).
HK$20,000 - 30,000
US$2,600 - 3,900

This lot is the chariot fitting holding the upper part of the bow in place.

東周 銅鎏金蛇形小承弓器一對

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Two archaic bronze ladles
Eastern Zhou dynasty
Each with elongated and slim body ending in a flattened leaf-shaped
spatula, the larger ornament ending in a bifurcated feathery tail, the
other with ribbed grip ending in a peacock tail finial.
The larger 23.7cm long. (2).
HK$5,000 - 8,000
US$650 - 1,000

東周 青銅匕兩件

See an excavated example of a similar ladle, unearthed together with
an archaic bronze tripod vessel in Zhechuan county, Henan province in
1978, in the Henan Provincial Museum, Henan Province, illustrated in
Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 12. Qin Han, Beijing, 1998, p.16, no.16.