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141 A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE BIRD-FORM FINIAL
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
戰國至漢 銅錯銀臥鳥形戈帽

modeled in the form of a perching bird, rendered with its head looking backward, with fine silver inlay defining its sharp beak,
rounded eyes, pointed ears, curled wings, and long feathery tail, the surface with malachite encrustation, the interior hollow
for attachment

Length 2⅜ in., 6 cm
$ 8,000-12,000

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

Finials of this type, with a hollow interior, may have been used to surmount the shafts of bronze ge. See an illustrated
5th-4th century BC example of a related bird-shaped finial, of less elaborate form and design, attached to the top
of a bronze halberd, published in Jessica Rawson, Ancient China. Art and Archaeology, London, 1980, pl. 105-d.
Compare a similar example with gold and silver inlay, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gifted by Ernest
Erickson Foundation in 1985, published in Maxwell K. Hearn, Ancient Chinese Art. The Ernest Erickson Collection
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, pl. 53; and another silver-inlaid finial, exhibited in Chūgoku
no bijutsu, hitori no me : tokubetsu tenji [The art of China: One man’s eye], Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts,
Izumi, 1984, cat. no. 36. Another related finial of this type, from the collection of King Gustaf VI Adolf, was exhibited
in Chinese Art from the Collection of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Stockholm, 1967, cat. no. 23; and a further silver-inlaid finial, from the Avery Brundage Collection, is now in the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, acc. no. B60B816. For Han dynasty examples, see a gold and silver-inlaid bronze finial,
formally in the collection of Henry J. Oppenheim, now in the British Museum, London, acc. no. 1947,0712.380; and
another, also in the British Museum, published in Orvar Karlbeck, ‘Selected Objects from Ancient Shou-Chou’, The
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin, no. 27, Stockholm, 1955, pl. 14, fig. 11.

此類品應為銅戈頂飾。參考一鳥形例，器形紋飾均 斯塔夫六世•阿道夫收藏，曾展於《王藏中物》，東方博
簡，銅戈頂飾，斷代公元前四至五世紀，圖見Jessica 物館，斯德哥爾摩，1967年，編號23；三藩市亞洲藝術
Rawson，《Ancient China. Art and Archaeology》 博物館收藏一錯銀例，出自艾弗里•布倫戴奇收藏，館
，倫敦，1980年，圖版105-d。紐約大都會博物館收藏 藏編號B60B816。漢代作例則可參考一錯金銀例，曾屬
一錯金銀例，由 Ernest Erickson 基金會1985年贈予該 Henry J. Oppenheim 收藏，現藏於倫敦大英博物館，
館，載於 Maxwell K. Hearn，《Ancient Chinese Art. 館藏編號1947,0712.380；大英博物館另藏一例，載於
The Ernest Erickson Collection in the Metropolitan Orvar Karlbeck，〈Selected Objects from Ancient
Museum of Art》，紐約，1987年，編號53。再比一錯 Shou-Chou〉，《The Museum of Far Eastern
銀例，展《中国の美術：一人の眼》，和泉市久保惣記念 Antiquities Bulletin》，編號27，斯德哥爾摩，1955年，
美術館，1984年，編號36。另見一例，出自瑞典國王古 圖版14，圖11。

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