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An important and outstanding bronze male chimera, bixie, Han dynasty | 漢 青銅辟邪
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An important and outstanding bronze male chimera, bixie,
Han dynasty
漢 青銅辟邪
cast in a powerful striding stance, the right front leg stretched forward and the left hind leg extended, the thick paws slightly lifted off the ground exposing sharp claws, its head raised alertly and dominated by piercing eyes and furrowed brows, the ferocious horned beast portrayed with gaping jaws above a tuff of beard, the broad muscular body accentuated with elaborate scrollwork against a ground of swirls and hatching, flanked by feathery wings detailed with striations and terminating in a sinuous tail with feathery protrusions and tufts of fur, the back surmounted by a rectangular and a circular socket incised with concentric circles and triangles, the underside cast with male genitals
l. 27 cm, h. 18 cm
L. Wannieck, Paris, 1924 or earlier.
Collection of Baron Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), Brussels, 1934 or earlier.
Collection of Madame Raymonde Féron-Stoclet (1897-1963), Brussels, and thence by descent.
Eskenazi Ltd, London, 25th March 2003.
L. Wannieck，巴黎，1924年或以前
阿道夫．斯托克萊特男爵（1871-1949年）收藏，布魯塞爾，1934年或以前
Raymonde Féron-Stoclet 夫人（1897-1963年）收藏，布魯塞爾，此後家族傳承
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，2003年3月25日
Michael Rostovtzeff, 'L'Art Chinoise de l'Epoque de Han', Revue des Arts Asiatiques, vol. 1, no. 3, Paris, October 1924, p. 11.
Georges Salles, Bronzes Chinois des Dynasties Tcheou, Ts'in and Han, Paris, 1934, cat. no. 417.
Osvald Sirén, 'Indian and Other Influences in Chinese Sculpture', Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences, London, 1938, pp. 15-36, pl. III, fig. 16.
Osvald Sirén, Kinas Konst under Tre Artusenden, vol. I: FranForhistorisk Ted Till Tiden Omkring 660 e. Kr., Stockholm, 1942, p. 272, fig. 190.
H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium, Amsterdam, 1948, pl. 61, no. 148a.
Georges A. Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Collection Adolphe Stoclet, Brussels, 1956, pp. 390-91.
Chinese Works of Art from the Stoclet Collection, Eskenazi Ltd, New York, 2003, cat. no. 10 and back cover.
Giuseppe Eskenazi in collaboration with Hajni Elias, A Dealer’s Hand. The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012; Chinese version, Shanghai, 2015, reprint, 2017, fig. 28.
Michael Rostovtzeff，〈L'Art Chinoise de l'Epoque de Han〉，《Revue des Arts Asiatiques》，卷1，第3期，巴黎，1924年10月，頁11
Georges Salles，《Bronzes Chinois des Dynasties Tcheou, Ts'in and Han》，巴黎，1934年，編號417
喜龍仁，〈Indian and Other Influences in Chinese Sculpture〉，《Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences》，倫敦，1938年，頁15-36，圖版3，圖16
喜龍仁，《Kinas Konst under Tre Artusenden》，卷I：Fran Forhistorisk Ted Till Tiden Omkring 660 e. Kr.，斯德哥爾摩，1942年，頁272，圖190
H.F.E. Visser，《Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium》，阿姆斯特丹，1948年，圖版61，編號148a
Georges A. Salles 及 Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt，《Collection Adolphe Stoclet》，布魯塞爾，1956年，頁390-91
《Chinese Works of Art from the Stoclet Collection》，埃斯卡納齊，紐約，2003年，編號10及封底
埃斯卡納齊，薛好佩整理，《中國藝術品經眼錄：埃斯卡納齊的回憶》，倫敦，2012年，中譯版，上海，2015年，2017年再版，圖28