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127 A RARE BONE COMB
SONG / JIN DYNASTY
宋 / 金 骨透雕妙音鳥穿花紋梳

of half-moon shape, the closely arranged teeth framed by an arched band pierced with a kalavinka in flight amid an undulating
scroll issuing large leaves and flowers, the details finely incised
Width 5⅛ in., 13 cm

$ 4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

See a pair of bone combs of the same type, decorated with reticulated floral scrolls and accentuated in gilt, dated
Song / Jin dynasty, excavated in Chang’an district, Xi’an city, Shaanxi province, acquired by the Shaanxi History
Museum in 2010, published in Shaanxi History Museum, ed., Masterpieces of Ancient Arts from Recent Acquisition,
Shaanxi, 2011, pl. 148; where the author notes that the pair is similar to a jade comb excavated from a Southern Song
tomb in Nanjing. For combs of this type made from other materials, see a silver example, formerly in the Carl Kempe
Collection, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl.
143a, and later sold in our London rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 93; a tusk comb in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
acc. no. 000189-N000000000; and an ivory comb in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. A.52-1938.

可參一對陝西省西安市長安區出土之相似例，為宋金時 värd，《Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe
期，其上飾鏤空纏枝花卉紋，描金以綴，於2010年入藏 Collection》，斯德哥爾摩，1953年，圖版143a，後
陝西曆史博物館，圖刊於《陝西歷史博物館新入藏文物精 售於倫敦蘇富比，2008年5月14日，編號93。另存一
萃》，陝西，2011年，頁148，同書提及，南京宋墓出土 牙質作例，台北國立故宮博物館院寶蓄，編號000189-
一玉梳例，形制相若，可資比較。此類髮梳材質繁多， N000000000；倫敦維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館亦藏一
可見一銀質作例，Carl Kempe 舊藏，錄於 Bo Gyllens- 象牙例，編號A.52-1938。

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