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142 A RARE BONE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’ FITTING
SHANG DYNASTY
商 骨雕獸首飾

carved in the form of a bovine head detailed with recessed diamond-shaped eyes framed by a band of leiwen and a broad
nose with leiwen defining the nostrils, flanked by a pair of leaf-shaped ears, one pricked and the other curving to the back, all
beneath two large upright curving horns, the back with a rectangular socket surrounded by leiwen, the top pierced with two
apertures
Height 3¼ in., 8.1 cm

$ 3,000-5,000

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

Bone fittings of this type are rare due to the fragility of the material. Compare a related dragon head-form fitting
of a smaller size, less elaborate than the present example, from the Ping Y. Tai Foundation, sold at Christie’s 17th
September 2008, lot 223. Another taotie mask fitting from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection was sold at Christie’s
New York, 18th March 2009, lot 249. See also Shang bone carvings of full animals, excavated from the tomb of Lady
Hao in Anyang, Henan province, published in The Institute of Archaeology, CASS, The Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in
Anyang, Beijing, 1980, pl. CLXXXIII, fig. 3; another from the Sze Yuan Tang Collection, sold twice at Christie’s New
York, first 21st September 1995, lot 129, and then 21st-22nd March 2013, lot 1192; and a bird from the collection of
Georges Halphen, sold at Christie’s Paris, 20th November 2003, lot 430.

因材質脆弱，此類骨雕存世甚罕。可比較一例龍首骨雕， 墟婦好墓》，北京，1980年，圖版CLXXXIII，圖3。思源
尺寸較小，紋路亦簡，源於戴萍英基金會，售於佳士得拍 堂舊藏見一類例，兩度售於紐約佳士得，先售於1995年9
賣行2008年9月17日，編號223。另有一饕餮紋面飾例， 月21日，編號129；繼售於2013年3月21日至22日，編號
原為亞瑟•M•賽克勒舊藏，售於紐約佳士得2009年3月18 1192。巴黎佳士得亦曾售一鳥形作例，Georges Halphen
日，編號249。此外，河南省安陽婦好墓出土一虎形骨雕 收藏，2003年11月20日，編號430。
作例，收錄於中國社會科學研究院考古研究所出版之《殷

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