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111 AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT ARCHAIC BRONZE CEREMONIAL HALBERD BLADE
(GE)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD
東周 春秋初 楚屈叔沱戈
finely cast with the elongated yuan divided by a raised ridge in the middle of each side and extending downward to form the
hu, inscribed to one side with eight characters reading Chu Qu Shutuo, Qu X zhisun, all bordered by sharply finished edges,
the end pierced with three vertically arranged chuan (apertures), the nei with a further rectangular chuan and decorated with
hook motifs, inscribed to one side with seven characters reading Chuwang zhi yuanyou, wang zhong, and the other side with
five characters reading yu fou zhi X sheng, the surface patinated to a dark silver tone with light malachite encrustation
Length 11½ in., 29.1 cm

$ 200,000-300,000

PROVENANCE 銘文：
Collection of Liu Tizhi (1879-1962). 楚屈叔沱屈 之孫 楚王之元右王鐘 于缶之 笙
C.T. Loo, New York, November 1938, acquired for Alfred
F. Pillsbury (1876-1950). 來源
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 2nd August 劉體智（1879-1962）收藏
1954. 盧芹齋，紐約，1938年11月，為 Alfred F. Pillsbury (1876-
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 1950) 代購
弗蘭克•卡羅（盧芹齋繼任人），紐約，1954年8月2日
EXHIBITED 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
An Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Loaned
by C.T. Loo & Co., The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 展覽
1940, pl. XXXIII. 《An Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Loaned
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, March - June by C.T. Loo & Co.》，底特律藝術博物館，底特律，1940年，圖
1948. 版XXXIII
新奧爾良藝術博物館，新奧爾良，1948年3至6月
LITERATURE 出版
Luo Zhenyu, Zhensongtang jigu yiwen [Gathering of 羅振玉，《貞松堂集古遺文》，卷11，1930年，頁35，圖版1
ancient writings in the Zhensongtang], vol. 11, 1930, p. 劉體智，《小校經閣金文拓本》，卷10，1935年，頁60，圖版1
35, pl. 1.
Liu Tizhi, Xiaojiaojingge jinwen taben [Rubbings of 徐乃昌編，《安徽通志金石古物考稿》，冊16，1936年，頁5，圖
archaic bronze inscriptions in the Xiaojiaojingge], vol. 10, 版2
1935, p. 60, pl. 1. 羅振玉，《三代吉金文存》，卷19，1937年，編號55，圖版1及2
Xu Naichang, ed., Anhui tongzhi jinshi guwu kaogao 嚴一萍，《金文總集》，台北，1983年，編號75572
[Manuscript of studying archaic bronze and antiquities 何浩，〈楚屈叔沱戈考〉，《安徽文學》，期1，合肥，1985年，頁
from Anhui], Anhui, vol. 16, 1936, p. 5, pl. 2. 56-59（無圖）
Luo Zhenyu, Sandai jijin wencun [Surviving writings from 崔恒昇，《安徽出土金文訂補》，安徽，1998年，編號38
the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties], vol. 19, 1937, no. 55, 王獻唐，《國史金石志稿》，青島，2004年，編號2633
pls 1 and 2. 中國社會科學院考古研究所編，《殷周金文集成》，北京，2007
Yan Yiping, Jinwen Zongji [Corpus of bronze inscriptions], 年，圖版11393
Taipei, 1983, no. 75572. 吳鎮烽，《商周青銅器銘文暨圖像集成》，卷32，上海，2012年，
He Hao, ‘Chu Qu Shutuo Ge kao [Study of the halberd 編號17328
blade of Chu Qu Shutuo]’, Anhui wenxue [Literature of
Anhui], vol. 1, Hefei, 1985, pp 56-59 (not illustrated).
Cui Hengsheng, Anhui chutu jinwen dingbu [Inscriptions
on archaic bronze excavated in Anhui: addendum], Anhui,
1998, no. 38.
Wang Xiantang, Guoshi jinshizhi gao [Manuscript of
archaic bronze in Chinese history], Qingdao, 2004, no.
2633.
Institute of Archaeology, CASS, ed., Yin Zhou Jinwen
Jicheng [Compendium of bronze inscriptions from Yin
and Zhou dynasties], Beijing, 2007, pl. 11393.
Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang
jicheng [Compendium of inscriptions and images of
bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties], vol. 32,
Shanghai, 2012, no. 17328.

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