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A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE HALBERD POLE FITTINGS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Each tubular ftting has a narrow rectangular aperture on two sides and is surmounted
by a seated phoenix with backward-turned head.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high, box
(2)
$1,500-2,500
PROVENANCE
Dr. Ping Yiu Tam Collection, Hong Kong.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1993.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.
A similar bronze tubular ftting with bird-form fnial shown still attached to a halberd
blade is illustrated by M. Loehr, Chinese Bronze Age Weapons, The University of
Michigan, 1956, pl. XXXI, no. 75. Another, which appears to be gilt-bronze, also ftted
onto a bronze ge and dated Han dynasty, is illustrated by Cheng Dong and Zhong
Shao-yi, Zhongguo Gudai Binqi Tuji (Ancient Chinese Weapons – A Collection of
Pictures), Beijing, 1990, p. 132, pl. 6-17, with a line drawing, pl. 6-18.
漢 鎏金銅鳳紋柲帽一對
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