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A JADE AND BRONZE HORSE BIT, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
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A JADE AND BRONZE HORSE BIT, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve

Published: Jean-Paul Desroches (ed.) et al, Two Americans in Paris. A Quest for Asian Art, Paris, 2016, p. 75, no. 167.

Exhibited:
1. Pointe-à-Callière Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Montréal, 17 November 2016-19 March 2017.
2. Kimbell Art Museum, From the Lands of Asia. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Fort Worth, Texas, 4 March-19 August 2018.

China. The two bars finely decorated with a rope-twist design and terminating in a circular loop at one end, by which they are connected, and a larger oval loop on the other, skillfully inlaid with a pair of jade plaques carved in thread relief with taotie masks on each side, each pierced with a central aperture, the opaque calcified stones now of an ivory-white hue.

Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. With ancient wear, casting irregularities, and signs of prolonged burial, including encrustations, weathering, and corrosion. The stones show natural fissures, dense crackling, and microscopic nicks. One bar has been repaired, with associated minor touchups. The bronze bears a naturally developed patina with extensive malachite encrustations, which, over millennia, have bled into the edges of the jade plaques, creating an overall superb patina. The bronze may once have been gilt.

Weight: 202.6 g
Dimensions: Length 21 cm

The adoption of cavalry and the dress style of the nomadic tribes prompted in China the creation of many accessories closely related to the new outfit: belt hooks and belt buckles, garment hooks, fittings for iron swords, horse trappings and archery-related accessories. Besides their utilitarian function, these accessories also communicated the high status of their owners. Since jade had played this function up to the moment preceding these innovations, it is unsurprising to find it used during the later Eastern Zhou and Han periods in the ornamentation of horse bits like the present lot and other accessories forged in metal. Sometimes items commonly made in metal were entirely carved in jade, thus showing not only an adaptation of foreign elements derived from the nomadic people, but their full integration into the Chinese cultural sphere. Jade was considered precious by the Chinese and valued above anything else. Jades functioned not only as ritual and burial items during this time, but also as objects of personal adornment for the living. Other luxury materials, such as gold, bronze, and glass began to be incorporated with jades with greater frequency.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related bronze harness fitting, dated to the Eastern Zhou dynasty, 5th-4th century BC, 22.8 cm wide, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number F1979.9. Further related bronze horse bits are exhibited in the Henan Provincial Museum.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams London, 9 November 2017, lot 6
Price: GBP 10,625 or approx. EUR 18,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare set of gold, silver and hardstone-inlaid bronze harness fittings, Eastern Zhou dynasty
Expert remark: Note this lot comprises a set of fourteen fittings, including two pairs of “connected ring fittings” which closely resemble the present horse bit in their form and rope-twist decoration.

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