Juliette Hammer
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品
Lot 107*
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE AXE BLADE, GE Spring and Autumn/Warring States Period
15 May 2025, 11:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Chen Xie
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Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Lazarus Halstead
Head of Chinese and Asian Art, London
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE AXE BLADE, GE
Spring and Autumn/Warring States Period
The blade issuing from a vertical hollow shaft, cast behind the blade with a snarling tiger above and gripping the back of a crouching bird with large beak and elaborate plumage, with a rounded cutting edge on the blade decorated with scrolls, stand. 15cm (6in) long. (2).
The blade issuing from a vertical hollow shaft, cast behind the blade with a snarling tiger above and gripping the back of a crouching bird with large beak and elaborate plumage, with a rounded cutting edge on the blade decorated with scrolls, stand. 15cm (6in) long. (2).
Footnotes
春秋/戰國 青銅戈
Provenance: Ariadne Galleries, New York and London
A distinguished American private collection, acquired from the above 22 April 2016
Published and Illustrated: T.Pang, Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes: Animal Art from 800 BC to 200 AD, New York, 1998, p.162.
來源： Ariadne畫廊，紐約和倫敦
顯赫美國私人收藏，從上處獲得於2016年4月22日
著錄： T.Pang，《Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes: Animal Art from 800 BC to 200 AD》，紐約，1998年，第162頁
See a similar bronze axe blade, ge, illustrated by T.Lawton, The Art of the Warring States Period, Washington, 1982, no.113. Compare also with a related ceremonial axe blade, ge, Eastern Zhou dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pl.83; and another example in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Yu Kuo-Ching, Rituals Cast in Brilliance: Chinese Bronzes Through the Ages, Taipei, 2014, p.125.
Compare also with a related archaic bronze axe blade, Spring and Autumn/Warring States period, which was sold at Bonhams London, 7 June 2021, lot 473.