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An archaic bronze axe (Yue), Shang dynasty, late Anyang period | 商安陽末 青銅饕餮紋鉞

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June 14, 03:20 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 EUR

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An archaic bronze axe (Yue)

Shang dynasty, late Anyang period


Length 20.4 cm, 8 in.

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Hache en bronze archaïque 'Yue', dynastie Shang, fin de l'époque Anyang

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商安陽末 青銅饕餮紋鉞

Collection of David David-Weill (1871-1952), Inv. D.W. 2588.

Sotheby's Paris, 16th December 2015, lot 13.

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David David-Weill收藏,編號D.W. 2588

巴黎蘇富比,2015年12月16日,編號13

This piece belongs to an important group of Shang axe heads featuring taotie masks and stylised gaping mouths. An almost identical axe-head was found among hundreds of bronze weapons in the famous late Shang tomb of high-ranking imperial consort and military commander Lady Hao (ca. 1200 BC), illustrated in Yinxu Fu Hao mu, Beijing, 1980, pl. 69, fig 1, with a line drawing p. 106, fig. 66:2. Several similar examples from early European collections are known. Compare examples from the Oeder Collection and the Malmö Museum, illustrated in J. G. Andersson, 'The Goldsmith in Ancient China', in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 7, 1935, pl. I: 1 and 2; and another from the Oppenheim Collection, now in the British Museum, with stylised mouth rendered in openwork, exhibited in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, cat. no. 267. Similar axe heads were also sold at Christie’s New York, 16th September 2010, lot 836 and at Christie’s London, 7th November 2017, lot 162.


此鉞鑄工精美,飾饕餮紋,紋飾以線條勾勒為主,出自於一組重要商代青銅鉞。 類似青銅鉞發於著名的晚期商代婦好墓(約公元前1200年)中,詳見於《殷墟婦好墓》,北京,1980年,圖版 69,編號1,描圖版頁106,圖版66:2。 其他早期歐洲收藏中亦有相似之例。 可以參考Oeder及馬爾默博物館之收藏,見J. G. 安德森,《古代中國的金匠》,載於《遠東古物博物館公報》,第7 期,1935 年,圖版I: 1-2;另比奧本海姆收藏一例,現藏於大英博物館,其口部為鏤空造型,於倫敦皇家藝術學院舉辦的中國藝術國際展覽會上展出,1935-6 年,編號267。。類似的青銅鉞也曾售於紐約佳士得2010年9月16日,編號836,以及倫敦佳士得2017年11月7日,編號162。