Finial or pole top | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1300–ca. 1050 B.C.E.

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 7 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (18.1 × 11.4 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1954.48.10
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Shang dynasty, Yinxu period (13th–11th cent B.C.E)
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Otto Burchard and Co., Inc., New York, 1930

Bibliography

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 284, ill

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 4–5, no. 4, ill

J. LeRoy Davidson, "Three Bronzes in the Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 21, no. 2 (1955), 5, fig. 3–4

Phyllis Ackerman, Ritual Bronzes of Ancient China (New York: The Dryden Press, 1945), pl. 64

Carl Hentze, Objets Rituels, Croyances, et Dieux de la Chine Antique et de l'Amerique (Antwerp, Belgium: Anvers, 1936), pl. 6a, b

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