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A RARE BRONZE CEREMONIAL HALBERD
BLADE, GE
Late Spring and Autumn Period
Cast with a pointed tongue-shaped blade, each
side incised with a human figure battling a tiger,
sharpened along both edges, the lower edge
sweeping in an arc to connect to the hollow socket
pierced with a longitudinal hole and decorated
with cloud scrolls and surmounted with a phoenix
beneath an openwork collared tiger facing in the
direction of the blade while grasping the wings of
the phoenix with its forepaws and the head with its
rear, a smaller tiger on its back biting the collar, the
details clearly rendered, the surface with small areas
of malachite encrustation.
5 1/8in (13.2cm) long

US$4,000 - 6,000

春秋晚期 青銅虎鳳紋戈

Provenance
Ariadne Galleries, 1990s

Published
Tina Pang, Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes:
105 Animal Art from 800 BC to 200 AD, New York,
1998, no.185
來源
Ariadne畫廊，20世紀90年代

出版
Tina Pang, Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes:
Animal Art from 800BC to 200AD, 紐約，1998年，
圖錄185

Larger examples with similar motifs and decoration
have sold at Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2019,
lot 103; and Sotheby’s Paris, 16th December 2015,
lot 36. Other similar example are illustrated in Xueqin
Li and Sarah Allan, Chinese Bronzes: A Selection
from European Collections, Beijing, 1995, pl.130
and 131.

106
A BRONZE FIGURAL MAT WEIGHT
Han dynasty
Cast as a male figure seated in a half kneel, leaning
forward slightly with the left arm bearing the weight,
the right hand with extended figures raised to
shoulder level, the face with alert eyes flanking the
broad nose above the mustachioed lips, the facial
features framed by a cowl, the glossy brown patina
with patches of silvery-green.
3 5/8in (9.2cm) high
US$5,000 - 7,000

漢 銅六博俑席鎮

Provenance
Private Collection, Connecticut, old inventory
106 number 17555

來源
康州私人收藏

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