Lot #50 - A bronze sword
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Auction House:Bonhams Australia
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Sale Name:Asian Art
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Sale Date:07 Dec 2022 ~ Session 1 (Lots 1 - 143) 2pm (AEDT)
07 Dec 2022 ~ Session 2 (Lots 201 - 294) 6pm (AEDT) -
Lot #:50
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Lot Description:A bronze sword
Possibly Spring and Autumn period (770 to 476 BCE)
with box, 35.0cm long -
Provenance:The Hsiao family collection, Melbourne
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Notes:The design of the hilt of this sword immediately reminds one of another example, albeit more splendid and having toured around the globe. That example was excavated at Yimen village in Baoji, Shaanxi province in 1992. Its openwork hilt is gilt, and inlaid with turquoise. Despite the difference in material and the openwork technique, this lot follows the design of the Baoji example religiously. The Baoji example was exhibited with The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors, Art Gallery of New South Wales. See the exhibition catalogue, Liu Yang and Edmund Capon, Sydney, 2010, p.70-71, no.39. Daggers with stacked dragon-head hilts, such as the current lot, continue to be associated with the Qin, see another similar example of elaborate cast gold hilt in the British Museum, acc.no.1937,0416.218, and more primitive ones in bronze, Christie's, New York, 16 Mar 2017, lot 836 and 837.
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Estimate:A$800 - 1,200
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Realised Price:
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Category:Oriental
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