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A RARE GOLD-HANDLED BRONZE
SCHOLAR’S KNIFE
Warring States Period
The slightly curved thin blade narrowed to a short
handle, with a thick gold oval-shaped loop attached
to the end, the blade and handle both encrusted
with malachite, box.
17.4cm (6 7/8in) long. (2).

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國 鎦金環首青銅書刀

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2008, no.6

出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2008年，編號6

A very similar bronze knife dating from the Spring
and Autumn period, excavated in 1977 from
Gaozhuang M18, Fengxiang (site of a Qin capital),
and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological
Institute, is discussed by J.Portal, The First Emperor:
China’s Terracotta Army, London, 2007, p.64,
no.30, fig.54, where it is noted that knives of this
kind were used by officials for scraping off mistakes
made when writing on wood or bamboo slips, as
shown by the detail from a terracotta official, fig.53,
no.24, of such a knife hanging from the belt. For
such knives in bronze with gold handles, Warring
States period, see The Art of the Warring States
Period, Osaka, 1991, p.101, no.144; and Zhongguo
Wenwu Jinghua Da Quan (Bronze volume), Hong
Kong, 1994, p.271, no.976.

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A RARE GOLD-SHEET-MOUNTED BRONZE
EMBOSSED ‘DRAGON’ FITTING
Warring States Period or Han Dynasty
Formed as a thin gold sheet attractively embossed
with a rounded square design of a densely-coiled
dragon, set into a bronze mount with a clip on the
underside. 40
4.5cm (1 3/4in) square.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國/漢 貼金銅蟠龍紋飾

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2007,
no.4

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2007年，編號4

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A very similar example is illustrated in The Art of
China’s Warring States Period, Kuboso Memorial
Museum of Art, Izumi, p.148, no.247. For related
fittings, Western Han dynasty, see B.Gyllensvard, 41
Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain: The Kempe
Collection, New York, 1971, pp.72-73, fig.11.

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