A FINE AND RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE DAGGER, GEShang/early Western Zhou Dynasty
The wide tapering blade entirely plain, the handle crisply and heavily cast with an elaborate grooved decoration on both sides probably for turquoise inlay, depicting a coiled mythical animal in profile facing the blade, the surface with light mottled incrustation principally on the plain blade, fitted box. 35.3cm (13 7/8in) long. (2).Footnotes商/西周早期 獸紋青銅戈
Daggers such the present lot served a ceremonial purpose during the Shang dynasty. Compare with a similar archaic bronze dagger, ge, Shang dynasty, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.no.24.216.2.
A related bronze dagger ge, late Shang dynasty, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 29 March 2022, lot 535.
A FINE AND RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE DAGGER, GEShang/early Western Zhou Dynasty
The wide tapering blade entirely plain, the handle crisply and heavily cast with an elaborate grooved decoration on both sides probably for turquoise inlay, depicting a coiled mythical animal in profile facing the blade, the surface with light mottled incrustation principally on the plain blade, fitted box. 35.3cm (13 7/8in) long. (2).Footnotes商/西周早期 獸紋青銅戈
Daggers such the present lot served a ceremonial purpose during the Shang dynasty. Compare with a similar archaic bronze dagger, ge, Shang dynasty, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.no.24.216.2.
A related bronze dagger ge, late Shang dynasty, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 29 March 2022, lot 535.
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