Period:Western Zhou dynasty Production date:1050BC-771BC (circa)
Materials:bronze
Technique:
Subjects:taotie
Dimensions:Length: 33.40 centimetres
Description:
Frontlet. Harness frontlet with a high relief tiger-like monster head at the top and some leiwen pattern on the otherwise undecorated vertical bar. Made of bronze.
IMG
![图片[1]-frontlet BM-1947-0721.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Western Zhou dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00298000_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-frontlet BM-1947-0721.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Western Zhou dynasty/Bronzes/mid_00760503_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1987:The bar of this harness frontlet presumably lay along the nose of a horse, with the monster face at the top sitting on the horse’s forehead. Cords passing through slots in the back would have held the bronze in place. Heavy relief emphasises the staring eyes and grinning jaw. Similar, almost circular eyes and teeth-filled jaws appear on two axes found in a tomb a Sufutun in Shandong province, mentioned in connection with a Shang-period axe (no. 17). The faces on the axes have grotesque human features, whereas the creature displayed here seems to be a tiger-like monster. The pointed arrow-shaped relief within the ears is very unusual. Areas of leiwen within some features of the face and arranged in scalloped horizontal registers across the vertical bar contrast with the relief of the face. A similar frontlet without the horizintal registers was found in a burial near Beijing.
Materials:bronze
Technique:
Subjects:taotie
Dimensions:Length: 33.40 centimetres
Description:
Frontlet. Harness frontlet with a high relief tiger-like monster head at the top and some leiwen pattern on the otherwise undecorated vertical bar. Made of bronze.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1987:The bar of this harness frontlet presumably lay along the nose of a horse, with the monster face at the top sitting on the horse’s forehead. Cords passing through slots in the back would have held the bronze in place. Heavy relief emphasises the staring eyes and grinning jaw. Similar, almost circular eyes and teeth-filled jaws appear on two axes found in a tomb a Sufutun in Shandong province, mentioned in connection with a Shang-period axe (no. 17). The faces on the axes have grotesque human features, whereas the creature displayed here seems to be a tiger-like monster. The pointed arrow-shaped relief within the ears is very unusual. Areas of leiwen within some features of the face and arranged in scalloped horizontal registers across the vertical bar contrast with the relief of the face. A similar frontlet without the horizintal registers was found in a burial near Beijing.
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