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Important Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection

An archaic bronze and jade spearhead, Shang dynasty | 商 青銅骹玉矛

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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

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Description

An archaic bronze and jade spearhead

Shang dynasty

商 青銅骹玉矛


the hollow conical bronze fitting narrowing to a terminus in the form of a snake head, the eyes framed by spiral details, the body indicated by scaly sinuous lengths, leiwen filling the negative space, the mouth of the snake securing a green and gray jade blade with beveled sides and a pointed tip, the bronze with malachite, azurite, and cuprite encrustations, metal stand (2)


Length 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm

Collection of Rena G. Segal.

Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 573.


來源

Rena G. Segal 收藏

紐約佳士得1995年9月21日,編號573

Minao Hayashi, Inshu-jidai seidoki-monyo no kenkyu / Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration: A Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronze Vessels, vol. II, Tokyo, 1986, p. 112, fig. 3-179.


出版

林巳奈夫,《殷周時代青銅器の研究:殷周青銅器綜覽》,卷2,東京,1986年,頁112,圖3-179