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139 A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF A HORSE
3RD / 2ND CENTURY BC
公元前三 / 二世紀 青銅馬

well cast, the stocky, muscular steed depicted standing four square leaning back slightly on its hind legs, its head held high,
with rounded eyes, flaring nostrils, and opened mouth revealing the teeth, its pricked ears flanking its hogged mane extending
down the neck, its tail curled high forming a small loop, the surface mottled with patches of malachite encrustation, wood
stand (2)
Height 5¼ in., 13.3 cm

$ 40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978), acquired 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏，購於1952年9月之前
prior to September 1952.
出版
LITERATURE 〈Oak Park Resident Keeps Priceless Collection of Oriental
‘Oak Park Resident Keeps Priceless Collection of Oriental Art in Bomb Shelter〉，《芝加哥論壇報》，1952年9月7日，
Art in Bomb Shelter’, Chicago Tribune, 7th September 版III，頁1
1952, part III, p. 1.

The present horse is distinguished by its large size in relation to related examples. See a closely related Ordos bronze
horse but of a slightly smaller size, from the collection of Mrs. E. Bennett, exhibited in the Exhibition of Chinese Art,
Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 89, sold in our London rooms, 24th May 1955, lot 26. Other horses of this type are generally
much smaller, such as one previously in the collection of C.T. Loo, illustrated in Alfred Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art, in
the Collection of C.T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XXXV, fig. 6; another previously in the collection of Frau E. Rosenheim, also
exhibited in the Berlin exhibition, op. cit., cat. no. 129, and later sold in our London rooms, from the collection of Mrs.
E. Bennett, 24th May 1955, lot 21, and again, from the collection of Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, 2nd July 1968, lot 16; a third
sold in our London rooms, 11th December 1979, lot 53; and lastly, a pair, from the collection of Lester Wolfe, sold in
these rooms, 7th December 1983, lot 73.

For stylistic comparison, see a Warring States bronze horse in the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco,
from the Avery Brundage Collection, published in René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Avery
Brundage Collection, Berkeley, 1966, pl. XLVIII, no. C; and another sold in these rooms, 20th February 1974, lot 303.

本品尺寸較同類者更大，頗為罕見。參考一鄂爾多斯式 號16；另見一例，售於倫敦蘇富比1979年12月11日，編號
青銅馬相近例，尺寸略小，E.Bennett夫人收藏，曾展於 53；再見一對例，Lester Wolfe 收藏，售於紐約蘇富比
《The Exhibition of Chinese Art》，柏林，1929年， 1983年12月7日，編號73。
編號89，售於倫敦蘇富比1955年5月24日，編號26。此
類馬多見小尺寸者，如見一例，盧芹齋收藏，載《Alfred 另可參考一戰國青銅馬例，藏笛洋美術館，舊金山，出
Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art, in the Collection of 自艾弗里•布倫戴奇收藏，錄 René-Yvon Lefebvre
C.T.Loo》，巴黎，1933年，圖版XXXV，圖6。另可參 d’Argencé，《Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the
考四例，其一為 Frau E. Rosenheim 舊藏，亦曾展於柏 Avery Brundage Collection》，伯克利，1966年，圖
林，出處同上，編號129，後自 E.Bennett 收藏釋出， 版XLVIII，編號C；另一例售於倫敦蘇富比1974年2月20
售於倫敦蘇富比1955年5月24日，編號21, 繼由 Walter 日，編號303。
Sedgwick夫人收藏售出於倫敦蘇富比1968年7月2日，編

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