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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION | 瓊肯珍藏重要中國藝術

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A FINELY CAST BRONZE SWORD
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The blade tapers from the median ridge to the chamfered
edges and issues from a guard that is finely cast on each
side with a different, intricate taotie mask formed by cells for
turquoise inlay. The handle is encircled by two rings also cast
with intricate cell-work for inlay, and the circular pommel is
plain. There is extensive malachite encrustation and some
turquoise inlay remaining.
20¿ in. (51 cm.) long
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.

Similar, but less intricate, cast decoration can be seen on
the guard and the rings encircling the handle of a Warring
States bronze sword of shorter size (42.1 cm.) included in
the Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Bronze Weaponry in the
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1995, p. 204, pl. 33. Less
intricate cast taotie masks can also be seen the guards of
two Warring States bronze swords illustrated by M. Loehr in
Chinese Bronze Age Weapons, Baltimore, 1956, pls. 38 and
40, nos. 98 and 99.

戰國 青銅劍
來源:
史蒂芬 • 瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏。