A FINE PERSIAN PIERCED AND SILVER INLAID BRONZE BIRD, with rounded body, fanned tail and small wings, the body and tail finely pierced and inlaid with scrolling arabesques and vine around a small geometric patterned roundel on the breast, a band of interlace around the neck, the wings inlaid with a flowering vine motif, the head cast with crest, ridged beak and scrolling vine around the drop-shaped eye, on a small square stand similarly pierced, circa 14th century (slight damage to neck and wings)

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A FINE PERSIAN PIERCED AND SILVER INLAID BRONZE BIRD, with rounded body, fanned tail and small wings, the body and tail finely pierced and inlaid with scrolling arabesques and vine around a small geometric patterned roundel on the breast, a band of interlace around the neck, the wings inlaid with a flowering vine motif, the head cast with crest, ridged beak and scrolling vine around the drop-shaped eye, on a small square stand similarly pierced, circa 14th century (slight damage to neck and wings)
4in. (10cm.) high

拍品专文

This bird was probably made for use as a pomander. When filled with cotton it would have been soaked in scent so as to slowly release it into the air. This use of bronze objects is mentioned in ..................