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Bronze Horse Bit
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Bronze Horse Bit

Date221 B.C.-24 A.D.
Object number43.11
ProvenanceYamanaka & Co., Inc, United States, to 1942; [liquidation sale by Alien Property Custodian, Yamanaka & Co., Inc., 1943, lot 126]; purchased from Yamanaka Liquidation Sale by Seattle Art Museum, 1943
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm) L.: 5 in.
MediumBronze
Luristan horse-bit cheek plates
Pre-Islamic
Object number: 48.40
Bridle bit
Villanovan
8th - 7th century B.C.
Object number: 63.158
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
early 10th-late 14th century
Object number: 49.203
Bronze Mirror
Japanese
10th - 12th century
Object number: 49.204
Bronze mirror with inscription
206 B.C.-220 A.D.
Object number: 50.96
5th-4th century B.C.
Object number: 50.114
Bronze Zhi
mid 18th-mid 11th Century BC
Object number: 39.23
Bronze mirror:  Sphinxes
Islamic
11th - 12th century
Object number: 47.69
Photo: iocolor, LLP
7th century
Object number: 39.27
Bronze Winged Chimera
early 5th-late 6th century
Object number: 41.14