戰國 銅錯金銀獸紋飾

of cylindrical form, the finial divided into two main registers with a raised band, both registers similarly inlaid with a confronting pair of mythical beasts against a background of stylised scrolls, the raised border with traces of scrolling designs, pierced with two apertures above the raised band, the bronze patinated to a variegated caramel-brown colour with faint olive-green malachite encrustation

英國收藏（始藏於1960年代）
Sparks Ltd，倫敦，1970年代
比利時私人收藏

This fitting is especially fine for its elaborate and well preserved inlaid decoration. Fittings of this form are rare although a closely related bronze and silver inlaid pole fitting is illustrated in Chinese Bronzes: A Selection from European Collections, Beijing, 1998, pl. 149. A-B. See also a shorter tubular fitting inlaid with a design resembling some of the elaborately embroidered textiles from Mashan and Mawangdui included in the exhibition Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes,  Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1990, cat.no. 94; and another shorter in size, in the British Museum collection illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Ancient China: Art and Archaeology, London, 1980, pl. XII. For examples sold at auction, see a pole fitting sold in our New York rooms, 3rd June 1992, lot 55 and another pair sold in our New York rooms 31st March 2005, lot 153.