Lot 1061
1061
A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE BRIDGE PIN ORNAMENT
A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE BRIDGE PIN ORNAMENT
A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE BRIDGE PIN ORNAMENT
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Collector/Connoisseur: The Max N. Berry Collections
A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE BRIDGE PIN ORNAMENT

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

Details
A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE BRIDGE PIN ORNAMENT
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, brocade box
Provenance
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 23 January 2006, no. 3680.
Literature
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China, Boston, 2006, pp. 106-7, cat. no. 10.
Exhibited
Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China, 5 October 2006-14 January 2007.

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Lot Essay

This sumptuous gilt-bronze ornament, cast in the form of a mountain inhabited by wild animals, would have decorated one of the tuning pegs of a se, a plucked string instrument popular during the Zhou and Han dynasties. A related Western Han gilt-bronze ornament depicting jagged mountain peaks inhabited by wild beasts from the collection of Shelby White and Leon Levy is illustrated by E. Bunker, W. Watt and Zhixin Sun in Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasion Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections, New York, 2002, pp. 188-9, no. 179. Another related, but less elaborate example dated to the 2nd-1st century BC is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 1915.161.1.

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