
Nadia Bellingeri
Sale Manager, Private Sales & Themed Sales
Sold for £8,750 inc. premium
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戰國/漢 銅鎏金鋪首銜環 一對
Provenance: The Mengdiexuan Collection
來源: 香港夢蝶軒收藏
The inclusion of a human figure in this design is very unusual. See a bronze ring handle with a related human-form decoration, excavated in 1968 at Mancheng, Hebei Province, from the tomb of Liu Sheng (d.113 BC) in the Hebei Provincial Museum which was illustrated in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalogue Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220), New York, 2017, pp.184-185, no.103.
A similar pair of gilt-bronze ring handles, Warring States/ Han dynasty, was sold at Bonhams New York, 30 October 2017, lot 44.