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An archaic bronze short sword An archaic bronze long slender triangular sword
Early Eastern Zhou dynasty, Qin culture Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, Bashu culture
The short blade with a prominent central ridge, tapering from the hilt The long tapering blade with a rounded panel enclosing intricate
to the pointed tip, the guard cast in the form of a stylised head of a archaistic scrolls and geometric patterns in shallow relief on the wider
mythical beast, the conical hilt cast with evenly-spaced studded bosses side, the oval guard rising to a hollowed grip integrally cast with a zigzag
on spiral ground. hatch-pattern and cord-like binding spiral patterns that flares out at the
26.4cm long. pommel, extensive greenish patina on the tip of the blade.
HK$60,000 - 80,000 35cm long.
US$7,700 - 10,000 HK$20,000 - 30,000
US$2,600 - 3,900
The current lot resembles an excavated example from Yanliang,
Shaanxi Province, which is dated to the early Warring States period and 東周晚期 巴蜀文化 蕉葉紋劍
attributed to the Qin culture. See also another comparable example from
the C.H. Wang collection, illustrated in Shang and Zhou Chinese Bronze
Weaponry, Taipei, 1993, pp.198-199, no.61.

東周早期 秦國式 乳丁紋短劍

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