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AN ARCHAIC GOLD-INLAID BRONZE SWORD
(DAO)
HAN DYNASTY
the long bronze shaft beveled to a sharp edge on one side
and terminating in a pointed tip, the flat rectangular hilt with
diagonal traces from being previously wrapped in another
material for grip, at the end of the hilt an oval pommel inlaid
with a curvilinear pattern in gold, metal stand (2)
Length 32 in., 81.3 cm

PROVENANCE
Private Collection.
Christie’s New York, 25th March 1998, lot 64.
LITERATURE
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 81.
$ 10,000-15,000

漢 銅錯金卷雲紋環首刀
來源：
私人收藏
紐約佳士得1998年3月25日，編號64
出版：
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版81

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TWO ARCHAIC GILT-BRONZE SWORDS (JIAN)
WARRING STATES PERIOD - WESTERN HAN
DYNASTY
the shaft of the longer sword centered on both sides by a
raised ridge tapering to form a sharp blade along both edges 23
and drawing to a pointed tip, each beveled side chased with A RARE BRONZE HALBERD BLADE (GE)
the outline of a chilong with its mouth open near the hilt and 東周 戰國 青銅雲氣紋戈
its curvilinear body terminating in a pointed tail at the tip, the EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES
shaft and hilt guard entirely gilt aside from the sharp edges PERIOD 來源：
of the blade, the oval-section handle with two raised fillets 杜伯秋，巴黎
and a flaring terminus with traces of gilt, the shorter sword the elongated yuan with a slightly raised ridge down the Franco Vannotti 收藏
of the same general form, the plain surfaces of the blade center and beveled on either side, the lower edge curving 埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1989年
decorated in gilt, set with a slender trumpet-form handle, gracefully to form the hu, the hu pierced with five vertically 巴黎佳士得2002年11月26日，編號209
metal stand, Japanese wood box (5) arranged chuan (apertures), the nei with a further chuan,
Length of longer 18 in., 45.7 cm patterned overall with parallel wavy lines, the bronze of a 展覽：
pale green patina, metal stand (2) 《Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr
PROVENANCE Length 12⅛ in., 30.8 cm Franco Vannotti, Hans Popper and others》，埃斯卡納
Acquired in 1989. PROVENANCE 齊，倫敦，1989年，編號15
Christie’s London, 13th November 2001, lot 53.
Jean-Pierre Dubosc, Paris. 出版：
LITERATURE Collection of Dr. Franco Vannotti. 李學勤及艾蘭編，《歐洲所藏中國青銅器遺珠》，北
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1989.
The longer sword: 京，1995年，圖版145
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection: Christie’s Paris, 26th November 2002, lot 209.
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 80.
EXHIBITED
22 Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr Franco
$ 10,000-15,000
Vannotti, Hans Popper and others, Eskenazi Ltd., London,
1989, cat. no. 15.
戰國至西漢 銅鎏金龍紋劍及銅鎏金劍
LITERATURE
來源：
得於1989年 Li Xueqin and Sarah Allan, ed., Ouzhou suocang zhongguo
21 倫敦佳士得2001年11月13日，編號53 qingtongqi yizhu / Chinese Bronzes: A Selection from
European Collections, Beijing, 1995, pl. 145.
出版：
龍紋劍： $ 15,000-20,000
彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版80
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