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210 AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT ARCHAIC TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE SWORD
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN - EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD
春秋末至戰國初 蔡公子從劍

the fine blade well cast with a crisp median ridge and beveled edges tapering toward a pointed tip, the cylindrical hilt encircled
by two flanges with abstract scrollwork, below a wing-shaped guard decorated on either side with a stylized mythical beast
mask, all above a disc-shaped pommel, one side of the blade with two columns of inscription, each comprising six characters
in niaochongzhuan (bird-worm seal script) reading Caigongzi Cong zhiyong (for the use of Cong, son of the Marquis of Cai), the
inscription, guard and handle flanges inlaid with turquoise, the other side plain, the surface with areas of malachite encrustation

Length 20⅛ in., 51 cm
$ 80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE 銘文：
C.T. Loo, New York, 1941. 蔡公子從之用
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
來源
EXHIBITED 盧芹齋，紐約，1941年
An Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes, C.T. Loo & Co., New 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
York, 1939, cat. no. 47. 展覽
An Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ritual Bronzes Loaned
by C.T. Loo & Co., The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 《An Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes》，盧芹齋，紐約，
1940, cat. no. 55. 1939年，編號47
Exhibition of Chinese Arts, C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1941, 《An Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ritual Bronzes Loaned by
cat. no. 104. C.T. Loo & Co.》，底特律藝術博物館，底特律，1940年，
編號55
LITERATURE 《Exhibition of Chinese Arts》，盧芹齋，紐約，1941年，
Xu Naichang, ed., Anhui tongzhi jinshi guwu kaogao 編號104
[Manuscript of studying archaic bronze and antiquities 出版
from Anhui], vol. 16, Anhui, 1936, p. 6. 徐乃昌編，《安徽通志金石古物考稿》，冊16，安徽，1936年，頁6
Shodō zenshū [Complete volumes of calligraphy], vol. 1: 《書道全集1•中國1》，東京，1965年，頁107
Chūgoku [China] I, Tokyo, 1965, p. 107.
Zhou Fagao, Sandai jijin wencun bu [Supplements 周法高，《三代吉金文存補》，台北，1980年，編號845
of surviving writings from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou 嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號7690
dynasties] Taipei, 1980, no. 845. 曹錦炎及張光裕編，《東周鳥篆文字編》，香港，1994年，編號31
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], 崔恒昇，《安徽出土金文訂補》，安徽，1998年，編號134
Taipei, 1983, no. 7690. 曹錦炎，《鳥蟲書通考》，上海，1999年，圖110
Cao Jinyan and Zhang Guangyu, ed., Dongzhou 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，北京，2007年，
niaozhuan wenzi bian [Compilation of bird seal script 圖版11605
from the Eastern Zhou dynasty], Hong Kong, 1994, 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷33，上海，2012年，
no. 31. 編號17837
Cui Hengsheng, Anhui chutu jinwen dingbu [Inscriptions
on archaic bronze excavated in Anhui: addendum], Anhui,
1998, no. 134.
Cao Jinyan, Niaochongshu tongkao [Comprehensive
study of bird-worm seal script], Shanghai, 1999, fig. 110.
Institute of Archaeology, CASS, ed., Yinzhou jinwen
jicheng [Compendium of bronze inscriptions from Yin
and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 2007, pl. 11605.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of
bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 33,
Shanghai, 2012, no. 17837.

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