An archaic bronze horse-harness ornament, Ju Probably Han dynasty | 或為漢 青銅馬飾

By repute acquired from Treasures gallery in Hong Kong ca. 1990.

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傳約1990年得自香港唯美古董家具公司

This horse bridle cheek-piece may draw its iconography from the representation of the tail of a dragon or silkworm and could have been intended to form a section of a taotie mask. Compare a bridle cheek-piece, dated to the 8-6th centuries B.C., in the collection of the British Museum, illustrated in William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1977, pl. 82a.