The Hundred Antiques: Fine and Decorative Asian Art
The Hundred Antiques: Fine and Decorative Asian Art
Property from a Pennsylvania Collection
A group of ten archaic bronze weapons, Shang - Eastern Zhou dynasty | 商至東周 青銅矛、戈及鉞等一組十件
Lot Closed
September 29, 03:37 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A group of ten archaic bronze weapons
Shang - Eastern Zhou dynasty
商至東周 青銅矛、戈及鉞等一組十件
comprising five spearheads and one ge halberd cast with bosses, Eastern Zhou dynasty; three ge halberds with chuan (apertures) at the hu and nei, Warring States period; and one axe head cast with a taotie mask, Shang dynasty (10)
Length of longest 11¼ in., 28.5 cm
A pair of spearheads and another spearhead:
Sotheby's New York, 6th December 1983, lot 29.
Another spearhead:
Sotheby Parke Bernet Los Angeles, 8th June 1981, lot 218.
The last spearhead:
Sotheby Parke Bernet Los Angeles, 5th March 1981, lot 1479.
One ge halberd:
Sotheby's New York, 21st January 1982, lot 247.
The axe head:
Sotheby's New York 6th December 1983, lot 24.