A RARE EARLY CARVED BONE FITTING WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY Possibly a handle or finial, carved in the form of recumbent fantastic animal with scrolls outlining and decorating the various parts of the body, with large head and upright ears flanking a pair of small curved horns which form small confronted zoomorphs, the mane also enclosing zoomorphs and the scrolls on the rear haunches terminating in a bird's head, the mouth pierced and the underside carved with two circular depressions, traces of cuprite and malachite encrustation from bronze, cracks--2¼in. (5.7cm.) long
A RARE EARLY CARVED BONE FITTING WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY Possibly a handle or finial, carved in the form of recumbent fantastic animal with scrolls outlining and decorating the various parts of the body, with large head and upright ears flanking a pair of small curved horns which form small confronted zoomorphs, the mane also enclosing zoomorphs and the scrolls on the rear haunches terminating in a bird's head, the mouth pierced and the underside carved with two circular depressions, traces of cuprite and malachite encrustation from bronze, cracks--2¼in. (5.7cm.) long
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