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A RARE 'TIGER' BONE HILT, LATE SHANG DYNASTY
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Published & Exhibited: Martin Doustar, Austronesia & Beyond, Parcours des Mondes 2023, Paris, no. 3.China, 11th century BC. The hilt finely carved in relief to depict a tiger head with large circular eyes set within classic Shang-type lozenge reserves, and a wide open mouth revealing a curled tongue. The head is surmounted by a small globe, while the sides are enriched with geometric and archaic motifs.The surface decoration combines passages of high relief carving with crisp incision work, creating a subtle interplay of depth and line.Provenance: Collection of Fran?ois Antonovich, Paris, France, and thence by descent. Collection of Martin Doustar, Brussels, Belgium, acquired from the above. Fran?ois Antonovich (1934-2023) was a distinguished antiquarian and avid art collector, director of several museums, and one of the foremost experts on Alexander the Great and Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire, two figures around whom he structured his art collections. He developed his passion for ancient art and collecting during his childhood in Egypt, residing in Cairo with his family of Spanish and Italian origins. Over the years, and beginning in the 1970s, he opened several galleries in Paris, and for nearly fifty years amassed an extensive collection of art objects and curiosities from diverse regions and periods, guided by his particular cultural interests. This collection constituted a true Renaissance-style cabinet of curiosities, reflecting both refined taste and profound erudition in the study of historical works of art. Martin Doustar is a Brussels-based art dealer and collector whose career spans more than two decades. He began his professional journey in the early 2000s with a focus on Modern Art, developing a keen interest in the ways early twentieth-century artists were influenced by 'primitive' art from Africa and Oceania. Over time, his connoisseurship expanded into archaeological and ethnographic fields, with particular expertise in the ancient arts of the Pacific, Africa, and Pre-Columbian America, while also encompassing Asian material culture and modern masterpieces. He is the author of several catalogs and has organized thematic exhibitions on a wide range of subjects. Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age, showing expected wear, signs of prolonged burial, calcification, encrustations, age cracks, old fills, and minuscule losses. The bone has a rich, naturally grown, warm patina.French Export License: Certificate d'exportation pour un bien culturel, file no. 255282, dated 18 August 2025, has been granted by the Ministre de la culture et de la communication, France. A copy accompanies this lot.Weight: 116 g (excl. stand), 696 g (incl. stand) Dimensions: Length 13 cm (excl. stand)With a modern stand. (2)Bone was widely used for both practical and decorative purposes in ancient China. It was made into vessels, spoons, weapons, and personal adornments. The tiger, called hu or laohu in Chinese, is among the most recognizable of the world's charismatic megafauna. Originating in China and northern Central Asia, the feline was known to the earliest Chinese, who likely feared, admired, and respected it for its strength, ferocity, and regal bearing. Though its precise symbolism in Shang times (c. 1600-c. 1046 BC) remains unknown, the tiger doubtless played a totemic, tutelary, or talismanic role.By the Western Han period (206 BC-AD 9), a thousand years after this pendant was made, the tiger was regarded as the 'king of the hundred beasts', or baishou zhi wang, due to its power and ferocity and especially for the markings on its forehead which typically resemble the character wang, or 'king'. In addition, not only did the tiger figure among the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, but it gained a place among the auspicious animals that symbolize the four cardinal directions, the White Tiger, or baihu, of the west, the Azure Dragon of the east, the Vermilion Bird of the south, and the Black Tortoise of the north.Literature comparison:Compare a related bone carving of a tiger, 4.3 cm long, dated 13th-11th century BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1985.214.119. Compare also a bone ornament featuring a similar face, dated 6th-5th century BC, 7 cm long, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number S2012.9.1562.Auction result comparison:Type: Closely related Auction: Christie's New York, 22 March 2013, lot 1192 Price: USD 30,000 or approx. EUR 35,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A rare carved bone figure of a tiger, late Shang dynasty, 11th century BC Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of carving, decorative motifs, and material. Note the size (11 cm).Auction result comparison:Type: Related Auction: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2022, lot 104 Price: HKD 378,000 or approx. EUR 44,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : An archaic bone carving, Shang dynasty, Anyang period, 14th-13th century BC Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving and material. Note the size (9.4 cm), different form, and earlier dating.

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