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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 東周戰國 青銅菱紋矛
A RARE BRONZE SPEARHEAD WITH METALLIC
LOZENGE PATTERN, 來源：
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES 大維威爾（1871-1952年）收藏，巴黎，收藏編號
PERIOD D.W. 34/25
巴黎蘇富比2015年12月16日，編號44
27.2 cm
展覽：
PROVENANCE Georges Salles，《中國周秦漢三朝青銅器》，橘園美
Collection of David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris, coll. no. 術館，巴黎，1934年，編號80（沒載圖）
D.W. 34/25. 《參加倫敦中國藝術國際展覽會出品圖說》，英國
Sotheby’s Paris, 16th December 2015, lot 44.
皇家藝術學院，倫敦，1935-6年，編號175
EXHIBITED 出版：
Georges Salles, Bronzes Chinois des Dynasties Tcheou, T’sin Olov Janse，〈Le style du Houai et ses affinités. Notes à
et Han, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1934, cat. no. 80 (not
illustrated). propos de quelques objets de la collection David-Weill〉
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of ，《亞洲藝術雜誌．吉美博物館年鑑》，卷8，期3
Arts, London, 1935-6, cat. no. 175. ，1934年，圖版 LIII:2
羅樾，《中國銅器時代古兵．北京故宮博物院楊寧
LITERATURE
史舊藏三代青銅兵器圖錄》，安娜堡，1956年，圖版
Olov Janse, ‘Le style du Houai et ses affinités. Notes à propos 41E（線圖）
de quelques objets de la collection David-Weill’, Revue des
Arts Asiatiques. Annales du Musée Guimet, vol. VIII, no. 3,
1934, pl. LIII:2.
Max Loehr, Chinese Bronze Age Weapons. The Werner
Jannings Collections in the Chinese Palace Museum, Peking,
Ann Arbor, 1956, fig. 41E (drawing).

HK$ 700,000-900,000
US$ 89,500-116,000

Distinctive for its pattern of intersecting double lines and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr Franco Vannotti, Hans
lozenge motif in a darker-coloured metal on the surface, Popper and others, Eskenazi Ltd, London, 1989, cat. no. 14),
which is among the rarest patterns found on weapons from where analysis suggests the decorative metal to be silver.
the Eastern Zhou dynasty, this spearhead was one of the It appears that silver strips were heated and adhered to the
twelve remarkable artefacts lent by David David-Weill to the bronze surface, perhaps with the help of chemical means (see
landmark 1935-36 International Exhibition of Chinese Art in William Watson, ‘Technique in Bronze and Precious Metal’,
London. ibid., pp. 10-11). Both the Vanotti spearhead and the present
Recorded by Olov Janse, the spearhead was reportedly spearhead were mentioned in Orvar Karlbeck, ‘Selected
discovered in Shouzhou, Anhui province. which was once Objects from Ancient Shou-chou’, BMFEA, vol. 27, 1955, p. 50.
an on-and-off capital of Chu and a prominent hub for the
production of late Zhou bronzes.
此矛兩面滿工，矛身飾雙線菱格紋，實為珍罕。據
This pattern is only found on a small number of extant
weapons; among these, inscriptions are scarce, with the Olov Janse，此矛傳出自安徽壽州。壽州曾為楚國舊
majority belonging to the Kings of Wu and Yue, such as the 都，亦為青銅生產重地。紋飾相類者偶帶銘文，而銘
legendary Sword of King Goujian of Yue and the Spearhead 文例多屬吳越兩王之器，如越王勾踐劍與吳王夫差
of King Fuchai of Wu. See also an uninscribed sword and 矛。台北故宮博物院曾展覽一相關菱格紋劍及矛，館
spearhead with this rare lozenge pattern in the collection 藏編號：購銅181及192。
of Taipei Palace Museum (accession nos Goutong-181 and
192), exhibited in Rituals Cast in Brilliance: Chinese Bronzes
Through the Ages, Palace Museum, Taipei, 2015, p. 139. 作雙線菱格紋所用冶煉工藝既非鑲嵌，又非鑿刻，
The metallurgical process used to create this pattern has 至今仍有待探索，有推論稱該紋飾乃蝕刻或由錫、
yet to be completely understood; however, it has been 氯化鐵、硫酸鐵等沉積而成，見紐約大都會藝術博物
suggested that the pattern may have been made through 館，館藏編號1985.214.27。另可參考一矛，杜伯秋及
resist-etching or surface deposition of tin, ferric chloride, or Franco Vannotti 遞藏，後經埃斯卡納齊易手，研究分
ferric sulfate; see a similar spearhead in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (accession no.: 1985.214.27). 析紋飾所用金屬為銀，銀線加熱後附於銅之表面，加
以化合處理，終成紋飾。該例與本品同被卡爾貝克提
Another nearly identical spearhead was formerly in the
collections of Jean-Pierre Dubosc and Dr Franco Vannotti, 及，見〈Selected Objects from Ancient Shou-chou〉，《
later dealt through the hands of Eskenazi (see Chinese and 遠東文物博物館館刊》，卷27，1955，頁50。

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