A PAIR OF SMALL GOLD 'TIGER-MASK' ORNAMENTS

公元前五/前四世紀或以後金虎首形飾一對

NORTHWEST CHINA, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC OR LATER

細節

公元前五/前四世紀或以後金虎首形飾一對
Each 1 in. ( 2.6 cm.) wide; weight 2.7 and 2.5 g

來源

Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK30.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 10.

出版

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 30.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 28.

展覽

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 30.

榮譽呈獻

高麗娜 (Olivia Hamilton)

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拍品專文

These fine masks are similar in detail to the heads of the four tigers seen attacking an ox, which form the decoration of four rectangular gold plaques found in the cache of gold and silver at Aluchaideng, Ih Ju League, Inner Mongolia in 1972, which is dated late Warring States period. One of these plaques is illustrated by Yang Junchang, Paul Jett and Chen Jianli, Gold in Ancient China: 2000-200 BCE, Beijing, 2017, p. 216, Fig. 4-35 b, along with other gold ornaments from the cache. The authors describe the ornamental plaques as having been made of beaten gold sheet "whose motifs were inspired by different animals."

NORTHWEST CHINA, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC OR LATER

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拍品專文

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