7 - 7. RARE ORNEMENT DE HARNAIS EN BRONZE Fin de la dynastie Sha…

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7. RARE ORNEMENT DE HARNAIS EN BRONZE Fin de la dynastie Shang, vers XIe siècle av. J.-C. A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE HARNESS FITTING Late Shang Dynasty, ca. 11th century BC Of shield shape, finely cast in thread relief with a pair of stylised confronted kui dragons on a dense leiwen ground, each with a prominently raised eye, their heads, body and feet forming the stylised head of a taotie, the back with two loops for attachment, the bronze with light green areas, velvet stand. 14.5 cm (5 3/4 in.) high (2). Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Louis Lemcovici (1910-2010), thence by descent in the family. 商晚期約公元前十一世紀青銅夔龍紋飾來源 Louis Lemcovici（1910-2010）舊藏，此後家族傳承 In the 1930s, a group of late Shang dynasty tombs was discovered in Xiaotun near Anyang, their contents dispersed through a network of dealers in China and the West. Among the pieces recovered from the site were several shield-shaped ornaments or fittings similar in size and design to the present lot and described as end pieces of a beam or a yoke that were now in museum collections. The first example of this type, excavated from the 'Elephant tomb' near Anyang, is illustrated by William Charles White, Bronze Culture of Ancient China. An Archaeological Study of Bronze Objects from Northern Honen, dating from about 1400 B.C.-771 B.C., Toronto, 1956, p. 69, pl. XXXIIA and B (Fig. 1). Another example acquired in Beijing in 1935 for the collection of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, now in the collection of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, is published in Ch'en Fangmei and Mette Siggstedt, "The Collection of Shang Bronzes in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities: a Catalogue", in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, no. 77 (2009), p. 214, cat. no. 193a and b (Fig. 2).

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