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112 A RARE GILT-BRONZE ‘DRAGON AND TIGER’ BRUSH HANDLE
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
西漢 銅鎏金龍虎紋柄

intricately cast in high relief in the form of two fiercely combating tigers, beneath a sinuous dragon writhing through clouds
with its head raised, all above a rectangular socket, wood stand (2)
Height 3⅜ in., 8.7 cm

$ 3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE 來源
J.T. Tai, New York, 29 December 1959. 戴潤齋，紐約，1959年12月29日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

See a closely related bronze handle, containing remnants of brush bristles in the rectangular socket, excavated
from a Western Han tomb in Shuoxian, Shanxi province in 1983, published in Qu Shengrui, ‘Shanxi Shuoxian xihan
bingxue muguo mu [Western Han tomb in Shuoxian, Shanxi province]’, Wenwu, no. 6, 1987, pl. 7, fig. 3. Compare also
a gilt-bronze handle of this type, included in the exhibition Arts of the Scholar’s Studio, The Oriental Ceramic Society
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 126 and later exhibited in Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, The Oriental
Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no. 108; another exhibited in Kandai no bijutsu [The art of the
Han Dynasty], Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1974, pl. 2-95; and a third decorated with a scroll motif on the
rectangular socket, sold at Christie’s New York, 15th September 2011, lot 1148.

可參一類例銅刷柄，1983年出土於山西省朔縣一西漢墓 陶瓷學會，香港，1986年，編號126；後又展於《漢代の
中，出土時猶殘存少許刷毛，收錄於屈盛瑞，《山西朔縣 美術》，大阪市立美術館，大阪， 1974年，圖版2-95。
西漢並穴木槨墓》，文物，第6期，1987年，圖版7，圖3 例三，飾鏤空卷紋，售於紐約佳士得2011年9月15日，編
。另有一類例鎏金銅刷柄，展於《文玩萃珍》，香港東方 號1148。

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