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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION (LOTS 75-105)
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A TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE HILT, GE
LATE SHANG DYNASTY (1600-1027 BC)
The hilt is cast in the form of a coiled dragon with a tail in the form of a bird
with a hooked beak, and the body is inlaid on both sides with turquoise.
6 in. (15.1 cm.) long
£10,000-15,000 US$14,000-20,000
€12,000-17,000

PROVENANCE:
Collection of Louis Bataille, Paris, acquired prior to 1960.
Christie's Paris, 26 November 2002, lot. 199.
Property from a Princely Collection.
(reverse)
LITERATURE:
D. Lion-Goldschmidt and J.C. Moreau-Gobard, Arts de la Chine, Fribourg,
1960, p. 44.

This hilt originally formed part of a ceremonial dagger and can be compared 晚商 嵌松綠石銅戈
to examples found in Anyang, the Shang capital from 1400-1050 BC, and
included in the funerary furniture of Fu Hao, King Wu Ding's wife. A similar
hilt at the Musee Guimet, Paris, is illustrated by Maud Girard-Geslan in 來源:
Bronze Archaiques de Chine, Tresors du Musee Guimet, Paris, 1995, pp178-
179. Some complete daggers are published in the National Palace Museum 巴黎Louis Bataille珍藏, 1960年前入藏
exhibition catalogue Collector's Exhibition of Archaic Jades, Beijing, 1999, 巴黎佳士得2002年11月26日, 拍品199
pl.61 and in Mary Tregear and Shelagh Vainker, Tresors de l'Art en Chine,
Paris, 1995, p.207. 貴族私人珍藏

出版: D. Lion-Goldschmidt 及 J.C. Moreau-Gobard 著
《Arts de la Chine》, 弗萊堡, 1960年, 頁44

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