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Lot 206
  • 206

Ensemble de dix armes archaïques Dynasties Shang et Zhou

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description

  • Archaic bronze
comprenant cinq lames, ge, quatre fers de lance, mao, et une hallebarde, qu (10)

Provenance

The dagger axe, qu:
Excavated at Kaifeng in 1940 (by repute).
Collection of Liang Shangchun, Shanghai.

Literature

The dagger axe, qu:
Bernard Karlgren, "Some Weapons and Tools of the Yin Dynasty", in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 17 (1945), no. 71.
Willem van Heusden, Ancient Chinese Bronzes of the Shang and Chou Dynasties. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Van Heusden Collection with a historical Introduction by Willem van Heusden, Tokyo, 1952, pls. XLII.
The pick, kui, the dagger axe, qu, the two spear-heads, mao :
Liang Shangchun, Yanku jijin tulu, Beijing, 1944, vol. II, nos. 40, 50 and 61.
Willem van Heusden, Ancient Chinese Bronzes of the Shang and Chou Dynasties. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Van Heusden Collection with a historical Introduction by Willem van Heusden, Tokyo, 1952, pls. XLVIII, XLIV, XLIX.