A pair of archaic bronze 'ox' linchpins Late Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty | 商晚期至西周早期青銅牛首車轄一對

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A pair of archaic bronze 'ox' linchpins

Late Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty

女史珍藏

商晚期至西周早期青銅牛首車轄一對

each cast as an ox head rendered with a pair of tapering, spiralled horns above bulging eyes, pierced with an aperture behind and set against a crescent-shaped back, all above a flattened pierced shaft, wood stand

9.4 cm

Collection of Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954).

Collection of the Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned in 1962.

Christie's New York, 22nd March 2013, lot 1128.

Raymond A. Bidwell（1876-1954年）收藏

斯普林菲爾德博物館收藏，馬薩諸塞州斯普林菲爾德，1962年入館藏

紐約佳士得2013年3月22日，編號1128

The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1965, pp. 42-43.

《The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics》，斯普林菲爾德博物館，馬薩諸塞州斯普林菲爾德，1965年，頁42-43

It is rare to find a pair of bronze linchpins of this high quality, preserved in such good condition. See a pair of linchpins in the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated together with their axle caps in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 99, and one in the British Museum, London, illustrated in William Watson, Handbook of the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities, London, 1962, pl. 36.

A pair of archaic bronze 'ox' linchpins Late Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty | 商晚期至西周早期 青銅牛首車轄一對

A pair of archaic bronze 'ox' linchpins Late Shang – early Western Zhou dynasty | 商晚期至西周早期青銅牛首車轄一對