A VERY RARE BRONZE DAGGER-AXE, KUI
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, 11TH CENTURY BC
A VERY RARE BRONZE DAGGER-AXE, KUI LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, 11TH CENTURY BC The broad triangular blade intentionally bent upward at the tip and cast on both sides with a taotie mask from which issues a tapering triangular panel filled with scrolls and cast in high relief with a pair of tusks and a pair of horns, both with projecting, curved tips, with a hole between the horns, and two rectangular hafting slits near the upper edge from which projects a petal-shaped tab cast with scrolls that partially conceals an oblong hole in the tang, the upper half of the nei of assymetrical outline and cast on both sides with a central panel decorated with a scroll pattern within an outer border of radiating bands, alternately plain and with dots, with extensive green encrustation 11¼ in. (28.6 cm.) long
A VERY RARE BRONZE DAGGER-AXE, KUI
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, 11TH CENTURY BC
A VERY RARE BRONZE DAGGER-AXE, KUI LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, 11TH CENTURY BC The broad triangular blade intentionally bent upward at the tip and cast on both sides with a taotie mask from which issues a tapering triangular panel filled with scrolls and cast in high relief with a pair of tusks and a pair of horns, both with projecting, curved tips, with a hole between the horns, and two rectangular hafting slits near the upper edge from which projects a petal-shaped tab cast with scrolls that partially conceals an oblong hole in the tang, the upper half of the nei of assymetrical outline and cast on both sides with a central panel decorated with a scroll pattern within an outer border of radiating bands, alternately plain and with dots, with extensive green encrustation 11¼ in. (28.6 cm.) long
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