A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection
A rare and important gold and silver-inlaid bronze disc, Late Warring States period / Western Han dynasty
Auction Closed
March 19, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Diameter 6⅝ in., 16.8 cm
Collection of Robert Woods (1875-1962) and Mildred Barnes (1879-1969) Bliss.
C.T. Loo, New York, 13th April 1959.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Christie's New York, 21st September 2000, lot 178.
Chinesische Kunst [Chinese Art], Preussische Akademie de Künste, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 29.
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, cat. no. 385.
Osvald Sirén, Histoire des Arts Anciens de la Chine. Volume II: L'époque Han et les Six Dynasties [History of the Ancient Art of China: Vol II: The Han Periods and the Six Dynasties], Paris and Brussel, 1929, pl. 46A.
Umehara Sueji, Shina Kodo Seika / Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America, vol. I, Osaka, 1933, pl. 56.
Osvald Sirén, Kinas Konst under tre Årtusenden [Chinese Art through Three Millennia], Stockholm, 1942, fig. 125.