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803 A VERY RARE GOLD-INLAID 東周ǭ公元前Ն世紀前後ǭ青銅錯金戟
ARCHAIC BRONZE DAGGER-AXE, JI
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY BC
The slender blade is pierced with four rectangular apertures and is Ϝ源
finely inlaid in gold in bird script on one side with three characters ☆՞Ⅷ藏
日本
running horizontally along the upper edge of the blade and three 壺中居
東京
年已入藏
further characters running vertically along the hu. The nei is cast 藍理捷
紐約
編號
on both sides with twin hooked scroll motifs within double line
展覽
borders.
紐約
藍理捷
「"ODJFOU $IJOFTF #SPO[FT」
年 月
10¡ in. (26.4 cm.) long, metal stand, Japanese double wood box 月 日
$30,000-40,000 ֨ḛ
張光ㅓǮ曹錦Ợ✙編
《東周鳥篆文字編》
臺北
年
PROVENANCE: 頁
編號
Private collection, Japan. 劉彬徽及劉長武
《楚系金文匯編》
武漢
年
頁
編號
Kochukyo, Tokyo, by 1995.
ս及頁
圖版
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4081. 藍理捷
《"ODJFOU $IJOFTF #SPO[FT》
紐約
年
編號
吳鎮烽編
《ਦ周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成 卷 兵器：戈Ǯ
EXHIBITED:
New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Ancient Chinese Bronzes, 戟》
ӳ海
年
頁
編號
19 March-9 April 2011. 曹錦Ợ編
《鳥゛書通考》
ӳ海
年
頁
編號
ս及
頁
圖版
LITERATURE:
Zhang Guangyu and Cao Jinyan (eds.), Dongzhou niaozhuan wenzi
bian (Index of Eastern Zhou Bird-Script), Taipei, 1994, p. 33,
no. 122.
Liu Binhui and Liu Changwu, Chu xi jinwen huibian (Compendium
of Bronze Inscriptions of the Chu Culture), Wuhan, 2009, p. 23,
no. 94 and p. 383, pl. 94.
J. J. Lally & Co., Ancient Chinese Bronzes, New York, 2011, no. 24.
Wu Zhenfeng (ed.), Shang Zhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng
(Compilation of Bronze Inscriptions and Imageries from the Shang
and Zhou Dynasties), vol. 31, Weapons: ge, ji, Shanghai, 2012,
pp. 341-342, no. 16848.
Cao Jinyan (Ed.), Niao chong shu tongkao (Comprehensive Study
of Bird-Worm Script), Shanghai, 2014, p. 397, no. 42 and p. 399,
pl. 319.

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