A VERY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE LINCHPIN WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
naturalistically cast in the form of a rhinoceros head rendered with pricked ears, almond-shaped eyes, and two protruding horns, pierced through with an aperture behind and set against a crescent-shaped back, all above a flattened pierced shaft, the surface with malachite and cuprite encrustation, wood stand (2)
Height 4 1/8 in., 10.5 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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naturalistically cast in the form of a rhinoceros head rendered with pricked ears, almond-shaped eyes, and two protruding horns, pierced through with an aperture behind and set against a crescent-shaped back, all above a flattened pierced shaft, the surface with malachite and cuprite encrustation, wood stand (2)
Height 4 1/8 in., 10.5 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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