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PROPERTY FROM THE BERGER COLLECTION LITERATURE PROPERTY FROM THE BERGER COLLECTION
EDUCATIONAL TRUST, SOLD TO BENEFIT EDUCATIONAL TRUST, SOLD TO BENEFIT
FUTURE PHILANTHROPY Otto Kümmel, Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis: FUTURE PHILANTHROPY
Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen,
AN OPENWORK ARCHAIC BRONZE Berlin, 1930, pl. 23. AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL
AXE BLADE Sueji Umehara, ‘Shina Kodai no Doriki ni tsuite BLADE (KUI)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, LATE [On Ancient Chinese Bronze Swords],’ Tōhō LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN
6TH - 5TH CENTURY BC Gakuhō (Kyōto), 1932, vol. II, pl. 6, g. 1. ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH - 11TH
Sueji Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa, part III, vol. II, CENTURY BC
the bell-pro le blade issuing from the rectangular 1933, pl. 99, g. 2.
tang, cast on both sides with a zigzag band at the nely cast of triangular shape with matching relief
base and a raised V-shape extending to the plain See catalogue note at . on both sides and an upturned curly-bracket-form
band at the blade’s edge, the sides anked by shield rising from the base, spreading across the
sinewy reticulated dragons, pierced in the tang $ 3,000-5,000 base of each side a wide taotie mask in high relief
and in the shaft, the patina of mottled russet and over a leiwen ground, ve smaller low-relief taotie
pale and olive greens 65 masks descending along the central axis, with
Length 5⅛ in., 13 cm mask-like imagery incised in the adjacent space,
Jörg Trübner 1930 pierced in three places, the tortoise shell-colored
PROVENANCE patina under malachite encrustations
Edgar Worch 1880 1972 Length 10½ in., 26.5 cm
Collection of Dr. Jörg Trübner, Berlin (d. 1930).
Collection of Edgar Worch, Berlin (1880-1972). Adolphe Stoclet 1871 1949 PROVENANCE
Collection of Adolphe Stoclet, Brussels (1871-
1949). 1997 6 10 109 European Private Collection.
Sotheby’s London, 10th June, 1997, lot 109. Sotheby’s London, 10th June 1997, lot 108.
Collection of Bernadette and William M. B. Bernadette William M B Berger Collection of Bernadette and William M. B.
Berger, Denver, Colorado, acquired in 1997. Berger, Denver, Colorado, acquired in 1997.
1997
$ 5,000-7,000
Otto Kümmel Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis

Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen

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1997 6 10 108

Bernadette William M B Berger

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