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An inscribed bronze spearhead, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, Bashu culture | 東周戰國時期 巴蜀文化青銅虎蟬紋矛頭

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October 9, 07:30 AM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 HKD

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An inscribed bronze spearhead,

Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, Bashu culture

東周戰國時期 巴蜀文化青銅虎蟬紋矛頭


the elongated leaf-shaped blade set on a slightly flared and hollow shaft, one side cast with a pacing tiger with a striped pelt shown in profile, the other side with an insect with patterned wings, detailed with a jar within an arc above and an arm below, the hollow shaft flanked by two long wavy loops and bordered by a classic leiwen scroll


30 cm

Luen Chai Curios, Hong Kong, 14th July 1988.


聯齋古玩號，香港，1988年7月14日

Jessica Rawson and Emma C. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no. 60.


羅森及愛瑪．賓格，《青銅聚英：中國古代與鄂爾多斯青銅器》，香港，1990年，編號60

A closely related spearhead decorated with an almost identical zoomorphic design, but shorter in size, attributed to the Bashu culture of the Warring States period, is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 1994.605.98.