A rare archaic bronze Chariot-Axle tubular cap fitting

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A rare archaic bronze Chariot-Axle tubular cap fitting Western Zhou Dynasty Finely incised with slanting parallel lines above a band enclosing two pairs of two striding archaic dragons and pierced with rectangular apertures, the bronze with a fine, naturally grown patina with malachite and cuprite encrustations, 14.7cm high. Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012. Cf. Compare with a pair of axle caps with a similar decorative band, Shang dynasty, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, illustrated by A. Priest, Chinese bronzes, New York, 1938, no.21., and a similar axle cap, Western Zhou Dynasty, sold at Bonhams London New Bond Street, 7 June 2021. 西周 銅龍紋車軸飾 來源：法國巴黎Sam與Myrna Myers 舊藏，約于1965-2012入藏。

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