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An archaic bronze ‘shaman’ pole finial
518 Late Western Han, Dian culture
334 | Bonhams Cast in the form of a kneeling figure, carrying a hollow cylindrical basket
with strings swung over both shoulders, his hands stretched forward
holding a cup.
9.5cm high.
HK$60,000 - 80,000
US$7,700 - 10,000

西漢晚期 滇文化 青銅跪俑

518
An archaic bronze kneeling figure
Western Han dynasty, Dian culture
Cast kneeling above a bronze drum with both feet tucked away under
the thighs, the female figure wearing a textured tunic with her left hand
resting on one knee, the right hand wrapped around the waist, her head
with neatly tied hair and bound at the back of the head.
6.1cm high.
HK$50,000 - 80,000
US$6,500 - 10,000

西漢 滇文化 青銅人俑飾件

See an excavated example unearthed in Jinning county, Yunnan province
in 1956, in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, Yunnan Province, illustrated
in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 14. Dian Kunming, Beijing, 1996, p.148,
no.180.