Period:Eastern Zhou dynasty Production date:5thC BC-4thC BC (circa)
Materials:bronze, gold, silver,
Technique:inlaid
Subjects:animal
Dimensions:Height: 9 centimetres Length: 27 centimetres Depth: 4.70 centimetres
Description:
Bronze cross-bow fitting (one of a pair with 1934,0216.2) in the shape of an animal and gold and silver inlaid decoration of geometric patterns. The fitting is a rounded socket terminating in a relief animal’s head, its legs and claws dragged out behind, and a long s-shaped bar emerging in front from its lower jar. This s-shaped bar is flat, undecorated and lined with tiny holes, as though something had been pinned to it.
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![图片[1]-cross-bow fitting BM-1934-0216.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Eastern Zhou dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00204908_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-cross-bow fitting BM-1934-0216.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Eastern Zhou dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00760452_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1987:Like the bull’s head, these fittings are thought to have come from a tomb at Jincun at Luoyang. They have similarly inlaid with gold and silver geometric patterns. Each fitting is a rounded socket terminating in a relief animal’s head, its legs and claws dragged out behind, and a long s-shaped bar emerging in front from its lower jar. This s-shaped bar is flat, undecorated and lined with tiny holes, as though something had been pinned to it.Similar fittings have been found at several sites. It is thought that they were attached to the ends of a cross-bow shaft. Modelled examples, as here, are rather rare and seem to reflect carved wood painted with lacquer, popular in the Chu state. Rectangular sockets covered with geometrically arranged inlay seem to have been favoured. The fittings survived as late as the Han dynasty; examples of both the simple and animal-decorated types have been found in the Han tombs at Mancheng.
Materials:bronze, gold, silver,
Technique:inlaid
Subjects:animal
Dimensions:Height: 9 centimetres Length: 27 centimetres Depth: 4.70 centimetres
Description:
Bronze cross-bow fitting (one of a pair with 1934,0216.2) in the shape of an animal and gold and silver inlaid decoration of geometric patterns. The fitting is a rounded socket terminating in a relief animal’s head, its legs and claws dragged out behind, and a long s-shaped bar emerging in front from its lower jar. This s-shaped bar is flat, undecorated and lined with tiny holes, as though something had been pinned to it.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1987:Like the bull’s head, these fittings are thought to have come from a tomb at Jincun at Luoyang. They have similarly inlaid with gold and silver geometric patterns. Each fitting is a rounded socket terminating in a relief animal’s head, its legs and claws dragged out behind, and a long s-shaped bar emerging in front from its lower jar. This s-shaped bar is flat, undecorated and lined with tiny holes, as though something had been pinned to it.Similar fittings have been found at several sites. It is thought that they were attached to the ends of a cross-bow shaft. Modelled examples, as here, are rather rare and seem to reflect carved wood painted with lacquer, popular in the Chu state. Rectangular sockets covered with geometrically arranged inlay seem to have been favoured. The fittings survived as late as the Han dynasty; examples of both the simple and animal-decorated types have been found in the Han tombs at Mancheng.
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