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A pair of archaic bronze chariot axle caps with original axle hubs
Late Eastern Zhou dynasty
Each cast as a cone rising from a raised circular platform, cast with two
archaic taotie motif on opposing ends, forming a pierced locking and
fastening mechanism bolted through the hollow body, all within a rope
border and on a scrolling archaistic leiwen ground.
6.8cm diam. (2).
HK$40,000 - 60,000
US$5,200 - 7,700

東周晚期 青銅獸紋車飾一對

See an excavated example unearthed at Longwan Tun, Shunyi district,
Beijing, in 1982, in the Cultural Relics Institute, Beijing, illustrated in
Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 9. Eastern Zhou 3, Beijing, 1997, p.144,
no.142.

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