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224 A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE SPEARHEAD (MAO)
SHANG DYNASTY
商 青銅蟬紋雙繫矛

well cast with the leaf-shaped blade extending to a hollow conical socket decorated with four upright triangular cicada motifs
above two circular whorls separated by abstract angular scrollwork, set near the bottom with a pair of loops, the surface with
malachite and cuprite encrustation

Length 9⅝ in., 24.5 cm
$ 8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Although typical in form of Shang dynasty spearheads, the present lot is notable for having a cast design on the
socket. Compare a closely related example, in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua
daquan qingtongjuan [Compendium of Chinese art. Bronzes], Taipei, 1993, cat. no. 242; and another, from the Avery
Brundage Collection, now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, acc. no. B60B762. Most spearheads of this
type are undecorated, such as a large group excavated from tomb 1004 at Xibeigang, Anyang, Henan provenance,
currently in the collection of Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, included in the exhibition King Wu
Ding and Lady Hao. Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2012, cat. no. IV-1;
and two sold in these rooms, 8th November 1980, lot 5, and 7th December 1983, lot 65.

本品雖屬典型商代青銅矛形制，然其骹鑄有紋飾，頗爲少 史語言研究所收藏一組作例，河南安陽西北岡1004號墓出
見。上海博物館收藏一例，圖載於《中國文物精華大全• 土，曾展於《武丁與婦好 : 殷商盛世文化藝術特展》，國
青銅卷》，台北，1993年，編號242；Avery Brundage 立故宮博物院，台北，2012年，編號IV-1；紐約蘇富比曾
收藏一例，現藏於舊金山亞洲藝術博物舘，舊金山，館藏 售兩例，分別為1983年12月7日，編號65及1980年11月8
編號B60B762。此類矛多數無紋飾，台灣中央研究院歷 日，編號5。

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