AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SET OF GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FITTINGS WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
the support modeled with a horizontal bar set with eleven sockets holding ten chariot parasol bone ends, each modeled with a small hook and inlaid with geometric patterns and scrolls, the support flanked by a pair of loop fittings, each decorated with abstract patterns and set to the back with a tube extending to an angled square-form foot, each loop fitting fixed to the side with a chariot yoke finial, similarly decorated with geometric patterns, possibly later assembled (11)
Length 17 3/4 in., 44.8 cm
Provenance:
C.T. Loo, New York, 8th November 1958.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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the support modeled with a horizontal bar set with eleven sockets holding ten chariot parasol bone ends, each modeled with a small hook and inlaid with geometric patterns and scrolls, the support flanked by a pair of loop fittings, each decorated with abstract patterns and set to the back with a tube extending to an angled square-form foot, each loop fitting fixed to the side with a chariot yoke finial, similarly decorated with geometric patterns, possibly later assembled (11)
Length 17 3/4 in., 44.8 cm
Provenance:
C.T. Loo, New York, 8th November 1958.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).