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A BRONZE GE-HALBERD BLADE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The curved butt is crisply cast on each side with a recessed
design of a humanoid face shown in profle below a headdress
or upswept hair, and the nei is pierced with a single hafting hole.
The tapered blade is heavily encrusted.
15º in. (38.8 cm.) long

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Lester Wolfe Collection, New York, by 1974.
Christie’s New York, 6 June 1985, lot 89.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.

EXHIBITED

Brooklyn Museum, on loan prior to October 1974.

Compare the ge-halberd blade in the Museum van Aziatische
Kunst, Amsterdam, which has a similarly shaped and
decorated butt, illustrated by C. Deydier, Les Bronzes Chinois,
Paris, 1980, p. 231, no. 99.

商晚期 青銅龍紋戈

810
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU, AND
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE LADLE
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (CIRCA 1046-771 BC)
The you is cast in high relief around the shoulder with two taotie
masks fanked by two long-tailed birds, their tails terminating
at loops to which are attached the animal head-surmounted
ends of the arched handle. The cover is also cast with a band of
birds fanking simplifed masks between raised tabs at the ends
and below a pierced, open fnial. The ladle has a deep bowl and
an arched shaft joined to the fattened, fared handle by a small
bovine mask.
You 8Ω in. (21.6 cm.) high with handle; ladle 8 in. (20.3 cm.) long,
box

(2)
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Ladle: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 12-13 March 1975, lot
124.
Both: The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1995.

西周 青銅鳳鳥紋卣及青銅斗

809

20 THE HARRIS COLLECTION:
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART