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A BRONZE HARNESS JINGLE
ZHOU DYNASTY (8TH-5TH CENTURY BC)

周代 青銅鑾鈴

The jingle is cast to the front as an oval open-form fower, with one aperture
to the centre on the back, all supported on a spreading rectangular foot. The
bronze has a pale greyish-green patina with light malachite encrustation.

71 in. (18 cm.) high

£6,000-8,000 $9,400-12,000
€8,300-11,000

PROVENANCE

With Shogado & Co., Japan, before June 1982.
From an important private European collection.

A very similar bronze horse jingle with openwork front, enclosed back and
raised vertical lines on the base is illustrated in The Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities, Bulletin no. 20, Stockholm 1948, pl. 44, no. 3.

A Western Zhou horse bell ftting can also be seen in the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, Yousef Jameel Collection for Asian and Islamic Art (accession no.
EA1956.844).

來源:
於1982年6月前購自日本古董商Shogado & Co.
重要歐洲私人珍藏

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