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THE PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG PRIVATE COLLECTOR
1602
A RARE BRONZE WEAPON
LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH-11TH CENTURY BC
The heavily cast weapon has a solid, bulbous lower section and is cast at the top on both sides
with three blades pendent from a band of leiwen. The small tang (nei) is pierced with a rectangular
aperture. The bronze has a silvery-grey patina with heavy malachite encrustation.
5¡ (13.8 cm.) long

$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong before 1990.
EXHIBITED
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, 12 October - 2
December 1990.
LITERATURE
J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 156-57, no. 56.
商晚期 青銅三角紋兵器