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umerous halberd blades were discovered
and collected in the Huai Valley areas
Nof Anhui and Jiangsu by Orvar Karlbeck
and others, many of which found their way into western
collections. See a closely related halberd blade cast
with a feline surmounting a bird and of a slightly larger
size, from the David David-Weill Collection, sold in our
Paris rooms, 16th December 2015, lot 36; and another,
included in the exhibition “Animal style” Art from East
to West, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1970, cat. no.
65. See also an example from the Stoclet Collection,
published in Otto Kümmel, Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis.
Ergebnisse seiner Letzten Chinesischen Reisen, Berlin,
1929, pl. 24; and H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art, New York, 1948,
pl. 40, no. 49; one in the Museum of Five Continents,
Munich, illustrated in Xueqin Li and Sarah Allan, Chinese
Bronzes: A Selection from European Collections, Beijing,
1995, pl. 130; and another in the Guimet Museum, Paris,
illustration in Xueqin Li and Sarah Allan, ibid., pl. 131.
Halberd blades of this type are also known to have been
excavated in Shanxi province, such as one excavated in
Miaoqian village, Wanrong county, Shanxi province, in
1961, published in Shanxi chutu wenwu [Cultural relics
excavated in Shanxi], Shanxi, 1980, pl. 93.

此類戈於安徽及江蘇淮河地區曾有發現。參考一件近例，遊
獸擒鳥飾，尺寸稍大，來自大維威爾收藏，售於巴黎蘇富比
2015年12月16日，編號36；另見一例，曾展於〈“Animal
style” Art from East to West〉，Asia House Gallery，紐
約，1970年，編號65。另見 Stoclet 收藏一例，載於 Otto
Kümmel，《Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis. Ergebnisse
seiner Letzten Chinesischen Reisen》，柏林，1929年，
圖版24及 H.F.E. Visser，《Asiatic Art》，紐約，1948
年，圖版40，編號49；亦見一例，慕尼黑五大洲博物館收
藏，載李學勤及愛蘭編，《歐洲所藏中國青銅器遺珠》，北
京，1995年，圖版130；再見一件，巴黎吉美博物館收藏，
錄李學勤及愛蘭編，出處同上，圖版131。同類青銅戈於山
西省亦有出土，如1961年山西省萬榮縣廟前村出土作例一
件，載於《山西出土文物》，山西，1980年，圖版93。

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