Willem van Heusden (1913-2009) 收藏
Mathias Komor，紐約，1953年10月23日
Richard C. Bull 伉儷收藏
上拍於蘇富比 Parke Bernet，1983年12月6日，編號35

《Arts of the Chou Dynasty》，斯坦福大學博物館，斯坦福，1958年，編號16
大學博物館，費城，1959年

Willem van Heusden，《Ancient Chinese Bronzes》，東京，1952年，圖版LV

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Related finials of this type include one of larger size and cast with a human face below the large animal mask, from the David David-Weill Collection, sold in our Paris rooms, 16th December 2015, lot 7. Another from the Pillsbury Collection is illustrated in Alan Priest, Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) through the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906), New York, 1938, cat. no. 124. One in the British Museum, London, is published in William Watson, Handbook to the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities, London, 1963, pl. 12. Two from the Avery Brundage Collection are shown in René-Yvon Levebvre d'Argencé, Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pls. XXIV.b and c. One is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji: Diaosu bian [The complete series on Chinese Art. Sculpture], Beijing, 1988, vol. 1, pl. 99. A further example was sold at Sotheby's London, 6th April 1976, lot, 12, and is now in the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, published in Giuseppe Eskenazi, A Dealer's Hand. The Chinese Art World through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, pl. 7. Compare also a related finial with two circular apertures, sold in our London rooms, 14th November 2001, lot 11.