A group of four gold and silver-inlaid bronze fittings, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period - Han dynasty 東周戰國至漢 銅錯金銀車馬飾及垂飾一組四件

Laiyantang Collection, Hong Kong, 1990s.

來源：
來燕堂收藏，香港，1990年代

The axle cap is inscribed with two characters reading Lingli. The earliest reference to Lingli seems to have appeared in the biography of a Western Han dynasty official, Shi Fen (d. 124 BC), who retired to Lingli after a long and illustrious official career. Lingli was identified as a village near Maoling County, located in the present-day Xingping City, Shaanxi province. (Thomas Lawton, 'Some Inscribed Chinese Bronze Fittings in the Singer Collection', New Frontiers in Global Archaeology, New York, 2008, pp. 357-85.)

See a pair of related 'Lingli' chariot fittings, from the collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung, sold in these rooms, 9th October 2022, lot 165; and three other groups of related 'Guo shi Lingli' fittings, sold on 25th November 2022, lots 865-867.