Depicting a hollowed tiger-like feline head in dignified expression with bulging eyes, rounded ears, symmetrical stylized whiskers to both sides of the face, a pair of canines beneath; later black acrylic stand

PROVENANCE:

S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco
Property from a private collection, Bethesda, MD, acquired from the above, circa December 19, 1995

NOTE:

Compare the bronze fitting with similar feline mask, late Warring States to Han dynasty, from the collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf, sold at Christie's, New York, September 24, 2020, lot 887. See also the gilt bronze fitting sold by Giuseppi Eskenazi, London, 1996, sold at Christie's Amsterdam, November 20, 2001, lot 510; a pair of gilt feline-head fittings were sold at Bonham's, London, November 8, 2018, lot 3. Compare also the pair of bronze fittings from the collection of R. H. Ellsworth, sold Sotheby's New York, March 19, 2002, lot 57.