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A gilt-bronze finial, Han dynasty | 漢 銅鎏金儀仗頂飾

Auction Closed

September 19, 02:55 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A gilt-bronze finial

Han dynasty

漢 銅鎏金儀仗頂飾


together with a small gilt-bronze chariot fitting (2)

及 銅鎏金小車馬飾


Diameter 1⅞ in., 4.8 cm

Mengdiexuan Collection, Hong Kong.


夢蝶軒收藏,香港

Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Oriental Ceramic Society and Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no.113. 


傑西卡•羅森及 Emma Bunker,《青銅聚英:中國古代與鄂爾多斯青銅器》,香港東方陶瓷學會及香港藝術館,香港,1990年,編號113

See a closely related bronze finial excavated from Mancheng Cave Tombs of Han, Baoding, illustrated in China's Social Sciences and Archaeological Research Institute ed., Mancheng hanmu fajue baogao [The excavation report of the tombs in Mancheng], vol. II, Beijing, 1980, pl. 50.1. Compare a few very similar auctioned gilt-bronze finials, a pair sold in our London rooms, 3rd April 1979, lot 40; another from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull, sold in these rooms, 6th December 1983, lot 70.