Bronze carriage element
CHINA - Zhou Dynasty (X-VIIIth century BC)
Estimate : 3 200 - 3 500 €
Sold 3 500 €
Bronze carriage element representing a rhinoceros head. Beautiful malachite-green patina.
A comparable item in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, under inventory number EA 1956.884.
Height: 9 cm (without base)
Provenance: Spoerry Collection, inventoried in the collection notebook under number 3009.
An invoice from Société Vignier in Paris dated November 1928 accompanies this lot.
Bronze carriage element - CHINA - Zhou Dynasty (X-VIIIth century BC)
Bronze carriage element - CHINA - Zhou Dynasty (X-VIIIth century BC)
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