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Shaft Mounting
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About this work
This small circular finial is treated with whorls, angles, and horn- or beak-like parts that suggest either oxen or birds.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineShaft Mounting, 500–300 BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Bronze inlaid with gold and silver; overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.1169
