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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT WASHINGTON PRIVATE COLLECTION
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK
COLLECTION
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A RARE GOLD AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE SWORD 831
WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY BC A FINELY CAST BRONZE BELL, ZHONG
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH CENTURY
The long tapering blade is cast with a median ridge and beveled edges. The oval handle BC
is encircled by two rings and the dished circular pommel inlaid in gold wire and turquoise
with C-scrolls surrounding a quatrefoil motif centered by a small gold sheet disc. The The bell of elliptical section is decorated on
bronze has a grey and green patina with some malachite green encrustation. each side with a central vertical panel of dragon
18√ in. (48 cm.) long, fitted brocade box scroll dividing two quadrangular panels outlined
by raised thin borders, each enclosing three
horizontal rows of three rounded bosses cast as
$40,000-60,000 coiled serpents alternating with dragon scrolls, all
above a broad band with further dragon scroll. The
PROVENANCE: flat top is similarly decorated beneath the handle
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collection, New York, acquired prior to 1965. formed by a pair of addorsed dragons joined by an
Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection; Christie’s New York, 14 September inverted U-shaped bar.
2009, lot 25.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high, jumu stand
EXHIBITED:
New York, Columbia University, February 1965. $50,000-70,000
A sword of slightly larger size (60.5 cm. long), with turquoise inlay in the guard and PROVENANCE:
rings but not the pommel, is illustrated by M. Loehr, Chinese Bronze Age Weapons, Private collection, Paris. (detail)
University of Michigan, 1956, pl. XXXVIII (no. 98). The author's description of the Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 October 1978, lot 75.
patina, p. 203, also seems to be very similar to that of the present sword. A detail of Spink and Son, Ltd., London.
another sword, no. 97, pl. XL, which also has turquoise inlay on the guard and rings,
shows remains of fine fibers wrapped around the hilt just below the pommel. A bronze Bells (zhong) of this type, with a large loop handle
sword from the Stephen Junkunc Collection similarly cast with two rings on the handle, formed by the addorsed bodies of dragons or
was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 March 2021, lot 608, and a bronze sword with a birds, are known as bo. Like yong zhong, bo
gold-inlaid pommel from the Arthur M. Sackler collection was sold at Christie’s New zhong were made for use in graduated sets, and
York, 21 March 2013, lot 1234. according to J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes
from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M.
華盛頓重要私人珍藏 Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
1995, p. 381, bo zhong and niu zhong appear to
戰國 公元前四世紀前後 青銅嵌金及綠松石劍 have displaced the graduated set of yong zhong
after the 5th century BC.
來源:
亞瑟‧M‧賽克勒 (1913-1987) 珍藏, 紐約, 1965年以前入藏 A very similar bo zhongof smaller size (6 in.) in
亞瑟‧M‧賽克勒珍藏; 紐約佳士得, 2009年9月14日, 拍品編號25 the Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford, is illustrated
展覽: by W. Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London,
紐約, 哥倫比亞大學, 1965年2月 1962, pl. 69a. A set of nineteen bo zhong of
graduated sizes cast with very similar designs
and of similar proportions from the tomb of Zhao
Qing, a high-ranking noble of the Jin State, in
Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan, Shaanxi province, is
now in the Shaanxi Archaeological Institute. See
Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 8 - Dong Zhou (2),
Beijing, 1995, pp. 98-103, nos. 111-4. Compare,
also, a bell of this type, but of larger size (23.5
cm.) and lacking decoration in the vertical plain,
sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2012,
lot 1528.
紐約顯赫私人珍藏
戰國 公元前五世紀 青銅龍紋鐘
來源:
私人珍藏, 巴黎
德魯奧, 巴黎, 1978年10月27日, 拍品編號75
Spink and Son, Ltd., 倫敦
(detail)
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