A BRONZE POLE FINIAL

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

细节

A BRONZE POLE FINIAL
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The upper section is cast in relief on both sides with a taotie mask flanked by ears below a pair of large up-curved horns, and the conical lower section is flat cast with simplified taotie masks. The bronze has a smooth, mottled olive-green patina and traces of cinnabar.
4 ¼ in. (11 cm.) high, stand

来源

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 11 May 1978, lot 13.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.

拍品专文

Compare the two pole finials of this type, each similarly surmounted by a pair of curved, scale-cast horns above a mask: the first illustrated by B. Karlgren in a Catalogue of the Chinese Bronzes in the Alfred F. Pillsbury Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1950, pl. 96, no. 73, has, like the Harris finial, a taotie mask; the other in the Frederick M. Mayer Collection, sold at Christie's London, 24-25 June 1974, lot 221, has a human mask. See, also, the example with taotie mask illustrated in "The Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes," B.M.F.E.A., No. 6, Stockholm, 1934, pl. V (3), which was found at Anyang.

LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

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