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Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection

A rare pair of gilt-bronze mask and ring handles, Northern Wei dynasty | 北魏 銅鎏金透空鋪首活環一對

Auction Closed

March 23, 06:46 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A rare pair of gilt-bronze mask and ring handles

Northern Wei dynasty

北魏 銅鎏金透空鋪首活環一對


(4)


Height overall 7⅝ in., 19.4 cm

Collection of Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007).

Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2002, lot 24.


侯士泰(1914-2007)收藏

紐約蘇富比2002年3月20日,編號24

See a closely related pair of gilt-bronze masks, excavated from a Northern Wei tomb at Guyuan county, Ningxia province, illustrated in Guyuan County Cultural Relic Institution, 'Ningxia guyuan beiweimu qingli jianbao [A brief report on the excavation of the Northern Wei tomb at Guyuan, Ningxia]', Wenwu, no. 6, Beijing, 1984, p. 52, fig. 19.