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An archaic bronze spearhead
Mid Eastern Zhou dynasty
Of rhomboid cross section with plain edges narrowing towards a
sharpened tip, one end a cylindrical hollowed shaft decorated in
archaistic and keyfret scrolls, the waist with a taotie design on each side.
20.5cm long.
HK$80,000 - 120,000
US$10,000 - 15,000
東周中期 獸面紋矛
See a related spearhead dated to the Warring States period, in the Suide
County Museum, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Bronzes from Northern
Shaanxi. Volume IV, Chengdu, 2009, p.636, accession no.TD373.
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