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WARRING STATES PERIOD, (475-221 BC)
Details
A Silver-Inlaid Bronze Crossbow Fitting
Warring States period, (475-221 BC)
Of hollow rectangular section, the shaped, domed top with a flat central panel extending down one end decorated with a lozenge scroll band, and the two wide sides with angular scrolls above a narrow lozenge band, the other undecorated end pierced with a rectangular aperture
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high
Falk Collection no. 543.
Warring States period, (475-221 BC)
Of hollow rectangular section, the shaped, domed top with a flat central panel extending down one end decorated with a lozenge scroll band, and the two wide sides with angular scrolls above a narrow lozenge band, the other undecorated end pierced with a rectangular aperture
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high
Falk Collection no. 543.
Provenance
D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, no. 119.
Mathias Komor, New York, May 1949.
Mathias Komor, New York, May 1949.
Exhibited
Art of Late Eastern Chou, New York, Chinese Art Society, 1952, no. 16.
Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University Museum, 1958, no. 68.
Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University Museum, 1958, no. 68.