A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE BIRD-FORM FINIAL

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

Details

A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE BIRD-FORM FINIAL
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The finial is hollow-cast as a recumbent bird, possibly a raptor, with head turned backwards and beak open to form an angular loop. The feathers are detailed in silver sheet and silver wire inlay.
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) wide

Provenance

Christie’s New York, 25 March 1998, lot 60 (part).
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.

Lot Essay

For two other small silver-inlaid bronze bird-form finials of this type and date see Chugoku Sengoku Jidai No Bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1991, p. 96, nos. 131 and 132.

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