拍賣筆記 vol.407 蘇富比紐約2019：瓊肯三世，6.875萬美元售出，東周至漢銅錯金銀朱雀形飾 - Sotheby’s NY 2019, Junkunc III, A Gilt And Silvered Glass-Inlaid Bird-Form Fitting Eastern Zhou - Han Dynasty
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瓊肯三世喜歡雕塑，而從他的幾個專場拍賣中可以留意到的就是他對鳳鳥、朱雀、神鳥母題的熱情和專注。參見瓊肯專場拍賣的另外幾件鳳鳥拍品：
參見藍理捷2011年展覽同款，西漢鎏金銅鳳凰：（漢代筆記 vol.32 藍理捷：西漢鎏金銅鳳凰，2011年展覽 - J.J.Lally, A Gilt Bronze Figure Of A Phoenix, Ancient Chinese Bronzes Exhibition 2011）
參考中山王墓劉勝出土的，更為華麗的鳳鳥：
東周至漢 銅錯金銀朱雀形飾
估價：30,000 - 50,000 USD
已售出：68,750 USD
瓊肯：中國高古藝術
19 三月 2019 • 紐約
成交總額: 4,138,125 USD 拍賣編號: N10030
來源
弗蘭克•卡羅（盧芹齋繼任人），紐約，1959年6月4日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
展覽
《An Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes》，盧芹齋，紐約，1939年，圖版XXVII，編號122
本品器型獨特，紋飾華麗，此類銅錯金銀飾極其珍罕，據記載，現存僅只一例，或與本品成對，據載發現於洛陽，售於 Hôtel Drouot，巴黎，1952年12月4日，編號41。此器多數為裝飾用，觀察背面鉤環可知。比較一羊首例，背面連一小鉤環，或為籠頭裝飾，出自中國北方，斷代公元前三世紀，現於 Therese 及 Erwin Harris 收藏，曾展於《Trader and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier》，華盛頓，1995年，編號55。再比一例，銅鎏金嵌料靈鳥，鳥首制式相近，斷代戰國或西漢初，曾展於《Archaic Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Works of Art》，J.J. Lally & Co.，1994年，編號60。
AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE GILT AND SILVERED GLASS-INLAID BIRD-FORM FITTING EASTERN ZHOU - HAN DYNASTY
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Sold
68,750 USD
Height 4 3/8 in., 11 cm
elaborately cast in the form of a mythical bird depicted frontally, with its head modeled in high relief, detailed with black glass-inlaid eyes and a short pointed beak, its wings outstretched accentuated with silver scrolls, its long gently curved tail extending upward into a fan shape, the reverse hollow and set with six small loops for attachment
Provenance
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 4th June 1959.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Exhibited
An Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes, C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1939, pl. XXVII, no. 122.
Condition
The upright tail with a restored break, as visible in the catalogue illustration. The upper loop on the reverse has been reattached. There are some minor nicks along the edges and small losses to the inlay. Overall with some expected wear to the surface and gilding and some small areas of malachite encrustation, all consistent with age.
Catalogue Note
Remarkable for its unusual form and sumptuous decorative style, gilt and silvered fittings of this type are extremely rare. Only one other example appears to be published, possibly a pair to the present fitting, reportedly discovered in Luoyang, sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4th December 1952, lot 41 (fig. 1). Fittings of this type usually functioned as an ornamental object, as evidenced by the small loops set to the back. A related fitting, cast in the form of frontal ram head flanked by two crouching wolves, set with a vertical loop to the back, identified as a bridle ornament, from North China and dated 3rd century B.C., from the Therese and Erwin Harris Collection, is included in the exhibition, Trader and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, Washington, D.C., 1995, cat. no. 55. Compare also a glass-inlaid gilt bronze mythical bird, rendered with a similarly styled head, dating to the Warring States/early Western Han dynasty, exhibited Archaic Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Works of Art, J.J. Lally & Co., 1994, cat. no. 60.
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