A CHINESE ARCHAIC BRONZE CHARIOT BELL

PROBABLY LATE SHANG DYNASTY/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

Cast as a pierced circle with a spherical jingle to the centre, all raised on a rectangular-section column, together with a fitted wood stand with a paper label for the H J Lowenthal Collection, 147, 16cm, 249g. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Mr H J Lowenthal, no.147, purchased from Bonhams Knightsbridge on 25th February 2015, lot 360 (part).

A copy of a report by Dr Brian Gilmour, Oxford, on the item is available.

Cf. the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, no.AC.1998.251.54 for a similar piece dated to the early Western Zhou dynasty.